Ivan Innocent Kyei, a youth activist and social commentator, has asked the Communication and Digitalisation Minister, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, to stop threatening Ghanaians.
According to him, the minister can threaten her workers when she opens her shop not when she is running a country.
He has described the posture for announcing the extension of the SIM registration as “nauseating and deterring people from registering.”
He says the September 30 deadline extension which she reluctantly gave should be given to the National Identification Authority (NIA) whose duty it is to ensure that everyone get the Ghana card before the SIM registration can take place.
With the SIM re-registration depending on the Ghana card as its primary document, Mr. Kyei believes measures should be adopted to ensure everyone has a copy before mounting pressure on the citizens with deadlines.
He also asserts the policy should have been explained well for people to understand to make compliance easier.
“For a policy to work, you must communicate the intent to people to understand. You have no right to be threatening Ghanaians. The 30th [September] ultimatum should be given to NIA to issue the cards to people. How dare you threaten Ghanaians. She will be compelled to extend it again and at the end of the day you’ll be ridiculing yourself. You’ll only be fooling yourself in front of people. Where is your integrity? She’s exhibiting an attitude that is so nauseating and deterring people from registering. When you open your shop, then you threaten people. It’s not when you’re running a country,” he fumed.
The vociferous young man indicated further that government has lost touch with reality and dwelling in their own fantasies rather than addressing the real needs of Ghanaians.
“They have lost touch with reality and living in the fantasies of their own world. Policies fail to be policies when they fail to address problems but rather creates inconvenience for the people. As a leader, even if you’re no more there, you should be remembered for leaving a legacy. What legacy areyou going to be remembered as the arrogant minister who threatened Ghanaians when you’re no more in office? Most of their policies are not succeeding because of they don’t communicate the intent well to people,” he expressed.
By Felix Anim-Appau|Onuaonline.com
