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Sim card re-registration and economic growth (final part)
• Sim re-registration would reduce criminal activities to some extent
Any person who understands why the sim card re-registration exercise is necessary will come to appreciate its value in terms of national security for all people residing in the country.
If it is possible for any group of people to use tricks to deceive business men and women in the country, then we all need to be careful about our safety and security.
This is because without security in the country, the safety of business men cannot be guaranteed and when this happens, the economy would not be able to grow in the way expected.
Furthermore, whenever crimes move high in the country, it puts fear in everyone, making it difficult for many to go about their normal activities.
Peace and security are therefore very important for the good of every country. Criminal activities cannot be totally eliminated from any part of the world.
However, when they are minimised, they help to boost confidence in the economy and thus help both local and foreign investors to go about their duties with ease.
In addition, the confidence they gain encourages them to believe in the system in which they operate since they know that at any point in time, their economic and business interests would be adequately protected by the state.
The question that arises now is “why is the Ministry of Communication and Digitisation seriously committed to ensuring that every SIM card in the country is re-registered?”
The issue of traceability here is very important and it should be possible for the State to trace the source of every call made in this country to enable us know that they are not coming from scammers or tricksters.
If we understand things so well in this way, we can have our peace to go about every business in this country. Any call made in any part of this country, is intended for criminal activities, should be traced from its source by national security officers.
If we are not able to trace the source, then our safety is in jeopardy. This will put us in great danger since criminals will have a field day and engage in all kinds of unpleasant, nefarious activities. Such activities are unproductive and must be discouraged without delay.
This explains why traceability of all calls is very important. It should be possible for us to trace the sources of all calls so that criminals in the country can be weeded out.
In the first place, under the current re-registration exercise, the personal details of every individual is captured. Secondly, the bio-data of the person is also captured.
With the carrying of such data, it becomes easy to trace calls from any part of the country especially when evil intentions can be imputed. As at now, it is not all SIM cards that have been properly registered.
For this reason, criminal activities are still ongoing. To prevent this situation, the Ministry of Communication and Digitisation has come out to say that all SIM cards that have not been properly re-registered will be blocked after November 30 this year.
This means that such unregistered cards cannot be used to make calls or transact business in any way. This exercise is meant to sanitise the system and prevent a situation where unknown SIM cards may be used for some criminal activities.
In the past, it was easy for any person to get a SIM card anywhere and use it to make genuine calls or alternatively use it for criminal activities. When businessmen and women are protected from this criminal activity, it becomes easy for them, as has been pointed out already, to have confidence in the economic system and go about their duties with ease.
This helps to promote business expansion as well as ensuring economic growth and increased welfare for everyone in the country.
When criminal activities escalate, they discourage people from carrying out their business activities with ease. On the other hand, where criminal activities are about nil in this way, business confidence becomes rekindled and this helps many individuals and business organisations to carry out their business operations in the way expected.
This means that in all sectors of the economy, whether in agriculture, health, trade, education or in any other sector, activities move on smoothly and profit margins keep escalating to higher levels. This is what Ghana needs today.
With the implementation of many programmes such as One District One Factory; Agenda 111 under which District and regional hospitals are being built across the country; Planting for Food and Jobs and for Export; and many other programmes that are ongoing, there is the need for every person in the country to know that good policies are being implemented and that we need to protect every person to make everyone feel safe in the country.
If this is the case, then we need to pay serious attention to the SIM card re-registration to guarantee the security and safety of every person irrespective of where you find yourself in the country. This is what the country needs so let each and every one support the SIM card re-registration in our own interest and live above pettiness.
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By Dr. Kofi Amponsah-Bediako
One of the issues we have been grappling with as a nation is corruption, and it has had such a devastating effect on our national development. I have been convinced that until morality becomes the foundation upon which our governance system is built, we can never go forward as a nation.
Our traditional practices, which have shaped our cultural beliefs, have always espoused values that have kept us along the straight and the narrow and have preserved our societies since ancient times.
These are values that frown on negative habits like stealing, cheating, greediness, selfishness, etc. Our grandparents have told us stories of societies where stealing was regarded as so shameful that offenders, when caught, have on a number of instances committed suicide.
In fact, my mother told me of a story where a man who was living in the same village as her mother (my grandmother), after having been caught stealing a neighbour’s cockerel, out of shame committed suicide on a mango tree. Those were the days that shameful acts were an abomination.
Tegare worship, a traditional spiritual worship during which the spirit possesses the Tegare Priest and begins to reveal secrets, was one of the means by which the society upheld African values in the days of my grandmother and the early childhood days of my mother.
Those were the days when the fear of being killed by Tegare prevented people from engaging in anti-social vices. These days, people sleeping with other people’s wives are not uncommon.
These wrongful behaviour was not countenanced at all by Tegare. One was likely going to lose his life on days that Tegare operates, and so unhealthy habits like coveting your neighbour’s wife was a taboo.
Stealing of other people’s farm produce, for instance, could mean certain death or incapacitation of the whole or part of the body in the full glare of everybody. People realised that there were consequences for wrongdoing, and this went a long way to motivate the society to adhere to right values.
Imagine a President being sworn into office and whoever administers the oath says, “Please say this after me: I, Mr. …., do solemnly swear by God, the spirits of my ancestors and the spirits ruling in Ghana, that should I engage in corrupt acts, may I and my family become crippled, may madness become entrenched in my family, may incurable sicknesses and diseases be my portion and that of my family, both immediate and extended.”
Can you imagine a situation where a few weeks afterwards the President goes to engage in corrupt acts and we hear of his sudden demise or incapacitation and confessing that he engaged in corrupt acts before passing or before the incapacitation—and the effect it will have on his successor? I believe we have to critically examine this option to curb corruption.
My grandmother gave me an eyewitness account of one such encounter where a woman died instantly after the Tegare Priest had revealed a wrong attitude she had displayed during the performance on one of the days scheduled for Tegare spirit manifestation.
According to her story, the Priest, after he had been possessed by the spirit, declared that for what the woman had done, he would not forgive her and that he would kill. Instantly, according to my grandmother, the lady fell down suddenly and she died—just like what happened to Ananias and his wife Sapphira in Acts Chapter 5.
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