Beatrice Annan, a member of the NDC communications team, has criticized Communications Minister Ursula Owusu for her attitude on matters relating to the execution of the required SIM registration.
She claimed that the minister ought to have asked her son, who is now 24 years old, for advice on how to carry out the policy since he would have done a better job.
She said on the Good Morning Ghana program that while she supports the SIM registration initiative, policymakers must take their time and pay attention to criticism when putting policies into practice.
“I listen to the Minister at the press conference yesterday and I thought that Minister, Ursula Owusu would have gone to her 18-year-old son for some wisdom on policy implementation because by this time the son is 24-year-old. In 2016 he was 18 and 6 years down the line I think he is 24 years. “Because she told us that if all you need to be in government is what the NDC was doing, her 18-year-old son would have done a better job.
“When it comes to policy formulation, implementation and policy synergy policymakers must take their time and listen to feedback,” she said.
The NDC Communication Team member added that given her position of leadership and her duty to serve the people of Ghana, the Minister for Communication should try to reason with them rather than making pronouncements that the people of Ghana must accept as definitive.
“…But yesterday listening to her, I think she should get over herself, come down to the level of every Ghanaian and know that if you are in leadership, it’s for every Ghanaian. It is not a place for you to exercise self-aggrandizement. It is not a place for you to believe that what you say is final. I like her personally, but I think she should get over herself.
“For her to say that she reluctantly agreed to extend the deadline, who is she? She doesn’t have any capacity, howsoever described, to cut off anybody’s sim card. What law is backing what she is doing? What regulation gives her that power to do and implement what she is doing in the manner she is doing it,” she said on the show.”
On Sunday, July 31, 2022, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, the minister of communications and digitization, announced that she had reluctantly agreed to extend the deadline to September 30.
She disclosed the second deadline extension after consultations.
“Upon consultation, the government has decided to grant a final conditional extension.” The program will be extended to September 30 to end on the anniversary of its commencement, which will give us one full year of SIM re-registration,” the minister stated.
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