Lawyer Wants FG To Regularise SIM Registration

The Federal Government has been urged to mandate telecommunications service providers to register all mobile lines on their networks rather than shifting the deadline always.
A legal practitioner, Gift Nyeche, made the call while speaking with The Tide in Port Harcourt yesterday.
Nyeche said the best option was to mandate all network providers to, as a matter or urgency, register all lines connected to their services.
He pointed out that it may be difficult for subscribers to meet up with the Federal Government’s orders on deadline. 
“To me, the issue of deadline extension will not help matters. The best way out is to compel service providers to, on their own, link all subscribers to National Identity Number”, he said.
According to him, since there is no immediate benefit from the exercise, most phone users may be reluctant towards it.
He raised the issue of poor network service by service providers, and called on them to make up for their lapses.
“Looking at the whole scenario, the service providers have not being fair with Nigeria subscribers. You pay for both their mistake and yours. So, they would have used this NIN registration to compensate us”, he said.
The legal practitioner also urged the Federal Government and its agencies to work out modalities on how to strictly monitor the operations of telecommunication industries in the country.
He expressed regret that while other parts of the world enjoy telecommunication services, subscribers in Nigeria were fed with poor services.