The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has justified why some SIM cards that had previously been linked to their National Identification Numbers (NINs) were barred.
Speaking on a monitored-television interview on Monday, the NCC spokesman, Reuben Muoka, said those in such category were barred because their previously submitted ones were not good
He said some SIM cards have verification and identification issues, like disparity in information such as names and other data, while some were barred because the information on the NIN did not tally with what the customers registered with their SIM cards.
“For now, it requires those physical visits to the stations to get it verified and validated but in the future, we hope that this will be done virtually.”
“Take it that everybody who has not submitted his NIN to the service providers have been barred.
Actually, the service providers starting barring people many days to the deadline,” he said.
Muoka, however, said it will be difficult to tell the actual number of phone lines that have been barred, but the NCC will do an audit before the end of the week as data is expected from service providers.
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