The Deputy Speaker Parliament, Thomas Tayebwa has asked Government to impose hefty fines on Telecom Companies in Uganda that are selling unregistered simcards.
Tayebwa has faulted such companies for harboring fraudsters, that end up defrauding and committing crimes with their unregistered simcards.
He cited a recent scenario where a one Eng. Byarugaba has sent him and other MPs messages under the contact 0766881917, demanding the MPs to send money for the transportation of transformers to their constituency, saying the fraudster had earlier sent the message and the Deputy Speaker asked MTN to block the number, only for the same person to switch to another simcard.
“Now, Minister for ICT, we registered the numbers. We were told that all the numbers which weren’t registered were removed from the network. In fact what happened in Nigeria, Telecoms were fined heavily for numbers which weren’t registered. Numbers which aren’t registered are committing a lot of crimes. And they are conning people every day, who are these people? And why don’t you punish the Telecoms that are allowing these fraudsters to keep using these numbers?” noted Tayebwa.