The Permanent Secretary for the Ministry of Information, Communication and Technology says that details of nearly four million Sim Cards submitted by subscribers cannot be matched with the provided National Identification Numbers (NINs).
Vincent Bagiire made the revelation while appearing before a parliamentary joint committee chaired by Tororo North MP Annet Nyakecho.
The committee consisting of MPs sitting on the committees of defence and internal affairs, Equal opportunities and that of ICT was tasked to assess the progress of the sim card verification exercise whose deadline is next week Thursday.
In his submission, Bagiire said that different telecom companies submitted the total number of their subscribers to the National Identification and Registration Authority (NIRA) with a view of matching the sim card numbers to the provided NINs.
“Some of the individuals who sent numbers were found to exist and could relate numbers to particular individuals but some were not found, they could not be matched to a NIN,” said Bagiire.
He said that out of the 16,921,861 million Sim Card details submitted by MTN, the biggest telecom operator, 15,982,381 were verified with only 13.4 million registration details found to be matching with the NINs.
Bagiire however noted that 2.5 million MTN Sim Card registration details cannot be matched to a National Identification Number (NIN).
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