With just hours remaining, the Uganda government has ordered for the disconnection of all sim cards that are not yet registered. Through its agency Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) the government asked all telecom companies not to continue with unregistered mobile simcards.

This has come with the government revealing that it took on the move to control security and intelligence. According to Rosemary Mukite, UCC Spokesperson says that all those that have failed to register their cards with their national identification cards, will be predisposed to lose them tonight on 13, November 2023 at 12:00am without further warning. She notes that they have for long warned and cautioned Ugandans on registrations; but a few have hide to the call;

“The days are now, those who didn’t register their sim cards will be disconnected on 12:00am. You will then have 90 days to connect back and after the 90 days the card won’t be able to work anymore. It will be taken and owned by other personnel,” notes Rosemary.

Worse still, it is reported that over 10 million simcards will discontinued due to failure of registration with national IDs. This has come with NIRA (National Identification Registrations Authority) declaring that it is still stack with 10 million citizens’ IDs due to failure of their machines.

NIRA says it lacks maintenance fees for the proper run of operations with the machines having broken down several months ago.

Author: UG pepper

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