Namibia: SIM card registration and the spy agency Namibia Central Intelligence Service (NCIS)

Obscurest state agency handed a most powerful ‘instrument’ with only presidential scrutiny

In his ministerial statement of 29 December 2023 extending the SIM card registration period to end-March 2024, information and communication technology minister Peya Mushelenga made it a point to start off by extolling the virtues of SIM card registration.

He mentioned, among other benefits, that SIM card registration is “an instrument that eases and ena…