“Some were registered without proper biometrics, no picture, no address, among others, and as such there should be urgent update on the lines.” Nigeria
The Minister of Communications, Dr. Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, yesterday in Abuja, ordered the telecommunications operators and the Nigerian Communications Commission to ensure that the Subscribers Identification Numbers cards are removed from the country’s telecommunications radar until the owners present themselves for proper documentation.
According to him, Pantami claimed that the National Security Adviser is interested in the matter “and ordered that the minister should act urgently before the kidnappers take over the country.”It was learnt that during the monthly SIM audit, which the operators usually submit to the NCC, more than nine million cards were discovered to have been improperly registered.
Reacting to the report, the minister expressed concern over the security implication of the discovery and further directed that the telecoms regulator should, with immediate effect, ensure that all improperly registered numbers are duly re-registered.
The Guardian had reported in August that the Mobile Network Operators were to go through another compliance audit of all SIM databases, which was going to be monitored strictly by the NCC. The specifications are prescribed in the Telephone Subscribers Registration Regulations and the Technical Standards and Specifications issued by the commission in 2011.
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