Inline responses 2009/9/25 kennedy waweru <kenne2ke@gmail.com>
Yeah, I get your point...but it beats sitting back and being spectators. The first up is always legislation, and currently we don't have. the law making process is an ongoing thing even in the developed countries. Many a times the law making process has to react to the ongoings within the society.
Okay let the ball start rolling. where do we, as the consumers start registering our SIM cards? I've not heard any of the telcos educating the masses on how to go about it. The presidential declaration was a stepping stone, but the road to the other side of the road is full of thistles. Availability of fake Certificates in the market does not mean our
Universities will stop applying stringent measures for those who genuinly want to get certificates, does it?
These fake certificates are what makes the universities apply stringent rules for admission of students. Had there been no such cases, then the so-called tough laws existing in our universities, would not be there!
Same case here, regardless of riverroad's shady dealings, it should not mean that we should not follow suit and apply stringent measures to try and curb the insurgence of mobile phone fraudsters. Ensuring there is no fake ID's is an entirely different aspect of crime.
What I meant by this is simply something like this. when you use the KRA online portal, say, type in your ID number, it brings as much information as you used when applying for the card, the same is when you check your PIN through the same portal. (This is the best I can think of right now) The mobile phone companies should, in my view, synchronize the users identity on their networks (whether using mobile money transfer or just a subscriber to the network) with the national bodies (e.g. National Registration Bureau). This would in a way reduce the case of fraud using a network. Interestingly, Safaricom is always on the receiving end whenever SIM scams are mentioned!
Lets have the proper regulation and if it still doesn't work we will cross that bridge when we get there.
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