The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) says a total of ninety five point seven million SIM cards being used by subscribers were not properly registered. While speaking at a regional sensitization workshop held in Port Harcourt, Rivers state, NCC officials said the agency will send the owners of the SIM cards back to registration centers for recapturing.
According to NCC’s executive commissioner for stakeholder management, Sunday Dare, perpetrators of fraudulently registered SIM cards will be charged with felony and risk a 25-year jail term.
The NCC director said the agency has put various sanctions in place to deal with the menace of pre-registered SIMs. He said this sanction will extend to the head of marketing of mobile network operators and even the chief executives of licensees who illegally benefit from such illegal SIM registration activities to meet their marketing targets.
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