ePAYSYSTEM:

The idea of SIM registration is never strange. It took me 2 weeks in the UK
to obtain a telephone line as a visitor because a registration had to tally with my VISA
Certificate and International Passport No. In organized societies, the government can use this
to protect the citizenry. Same is possible in Nigeria.

But I have a big question to How is Nigerian Government going to use this as a strategy to fix
kidnapping. Look at this:

My Friend was kidnapped 2 times by different groups. At each of this times, he was never contacted before the attack. From the time they picked him till the time he was released on ransom, the only means of communication was his own phone. There was no identification of any phone line belonging to the NAPAS. If his lines were registered, how would this aid his release and of cause a protection for his family.

Do you think kidnapping can be checked with just this exercise of SIm registration given that other security measures are hitting the rocks? Or would you make other suggestions that the government and the people would try?

kai-osama!:

This Sim registration will be another of incriminating innocent Nigerians by the police because when u register your Sim and it happens that your phone with the Sim inside was stolen by kidnappers, definitely if they use that Sim to make a call, the owner of the stolen Sim will be in problem as the police will now believe that the owner of the Sim is the kidnapper in question, and u know Nigerian police?, they are very very good at arresting innocent people in place of criminals. so that will be another way of harassing innocent members of the public while the kidnappers keep on going free. A kidnapper will not use his/her Sim card to make calls. So it will not eliminate it instead more innocent Nigerians will be put into trouble.

ePAYSYSTEM:


The idea of SIM registration is never strange. It took me 2 weeks in the UK
to obtain a telephone line as a visitor because a registration had to tally with my VISA
Certificate and International Passport No. In organized societies, the government can use this
to protect the citizenry. Same is possible in Nigeria.

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Why did you not just go the Argos and Buy a Pay as you Go Phone "Duh"


In reference to your above comment, you just wasted your time and i doubt the
story unless you were seeking a land line or a contract phone,

ePAYSYSTEM:

The idea of SIM registration is never strange. It took me 2 weeks in the UK
to obtain a telephone line as a visitor because a registration had to tally with my VISA
Certificate and International Passport No. In organized societies, the government can use this
to protect the citizenry. Same is possible in Nigeria.

But I have a big question to How is Nigerian Government going to use this as a strategy to fix
kidnapping. Look at this:

My Friend was kidnapped 2 times by different groups. At each of this times, he was never contacted before the attack. From the time they picked him till the time he was released on ransom, the only means of communication was his own phone. There was no identification of any phone line belonging to the NAPAS. If his lines were registered, how would this aid his release and of cause a protection for his family.

Do you think kidnapping can be checked with just this exercise of SIm registration given that other security measures are hitting the rocks? Or would you make other suggestions that the government and the people would try?

chelseabmw:

This sim registration will not work.PERIOD

kai-osama!:

@kaboninc
when i say the kidnappers stole somebody's phone, i didn't mean the phone of the person that is being kidnapped but what i mean is that they can steal Mr.A's phone and later kidnap Mr.B and still went further to make contact with Mr.B's relatives using Mr.A's phone. thereby putting Mr.A into trouble, and when the network operators trace the number, they will trace it to Mr.A's  identity, whereas Mr.A  is innocent.

Emmyk:

What if u had a 'THREAT CALL' from an hidden no Would the network op track that when u take it to them

ePAYSYSTEM:

The idea of SIM registration is never strange. It took me 2 weeks in the UK
to obtain a telephone line as a visitor because a registration had to tally with my VISA
Certificate and International Passport No. In organized societies, the government can use this
to protect the citizenry. Same is possible in Nigeria.

bouncino:

There are two crimes here - kidnap and threat calls. SIM registration will not help much with kidnapping since in most cases, the victims phone is used. But SIM registration will aid strongly in combating THREAT CALLS. Records show that there are more threat calls than kidnap cases and the Police and other agencies spend too much time managing this due to the fear and trauma the victims go thru.

Threat calls and SMSs will have to be sent with the criminal's phone. Combined with tracking, it will be easy to snare or trap the animals.

Jakumo:

Existing GSM telephone technology does in fact permit cellphone providers to quickly locate the precise GPS coordinates where any given handset is being used, by a process known as triangulation, whereby the relative signal strength and directional bearing of the phone under investigation is quantified with respect to the nearest three transmission towers of known longitude and latitude, such that the point of intersection of three vector quantities identifies the target handset's location to an accuracy of within ten feet.

This well established localization technique works regardless of whether or not the phone under investigation contains a GPS transceiver, and is routinely used by law enforcement in the West to perform geographical analysis of phone signals in the context of criminal activity localization.  Nigeria's GSM phone providers ALREADY possess the hardware required for this sort of investigation, with no additional upgrades necessary.

tunscolo:

has car registration stopped kidnapping in this country. what if another person's phone that is registered was stolen,  for their kidnapping. have u guys ever thought about that?

fyneguy:

Bros, are you kiddin? 

Ok. give me your fone number let me threaten u and see if you can track me 

bros, nobody can track threat calls made from Ekaette business centre o  , except u want to punish Ekaette.

oladayo042:

Anyone here thinks there is a satellite tracking system in the country?