Governments efforts to bring sanity in Mobile telephony sector in Kenya frustrated

 By Dan Muhuni

Kenyan Government in its efforts to bring sanity in the ever growing mobile telephony industry, are been frustrated by some unscrupulous Mobile phone operators who gives profit making a priority at the expense of the insecurity challenges we are currently facing.

The government through Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK) come up with a well informed subscriber registration that was aimed at safeguarding the public against acts of insecurity including the widespread threats posed by terrorism, drug trafficking, money laundering, extortion, fraud, hate messages, and incitement that are now widespread around the country.

CCK Director General Mr Francis Wangusi says

CCK Director General Mr Francis Wangusi says that there is substantiation evidence of use of unregistered SIM cards on the mobile networks and early this week he demanded that the operators deactivate them or face prosecution.

This governments noble idea to have all the SIM cards registered and issued a directive to all mobile phone companies to be filing periodic date on SIM card registration but this efforts are frustrated by the same mobile phone operators who file doctored data with the Communication Commission of Kenya.

Mobile phone operators have the exclusive rights to control who uses their network and therefore they should be held accountable since they have given mobile terrorism a conducive environment for it to thrive but giving terrorist avenues to complete their mission.

Early this week we saw CEOs from this blatant companies trying to exonerate themselves from the blame BUT i ask this eminent question who is to blame in this SIM card registration hullabaloo?

Is it the government, Mobile telephone operators or the users? But the buck stops with Mobile phone operators……

It’s evident from the CCTV that was released to the media and can vividly see the terrorists using mobile phones to communicate.

Tomorrow we scrutinize the list of Mobile phone operators cooking data that is submitted to CCK.