The has alleged that an employee of a leading telecommunications company in the country provided their official login credentials to one of the suspects arrested in connection with the kidnapping of two Ghanaian women in Nigeria.
According to the police, the employee, identified as Abdul Mubarak Zakaria, also forwarded a One-Time Password (OTP), used for two-factor authentication, to the suspect, Titus Mba Awuni, a mobile money operator based in Bolgatanga.
This, the police said, enabled the suspect to gain unauthorised access to the telecommunications company's SIM registration application where they allegedly registered SIM cards using the Ghana Cards of unsuspecting individuals.
These illegally registered SIMs were then sold for GH¢150 each. "After the interrogation of the suspects, it came to light that suspect Titus Mba Awuni, who is a mobile money agent in Bolgatanga, had links with one Abdul Mubarak Zakaria, an employee of one of the telecommunications companies who has allegedly given him his official login credentials and also forwards a one-time PIN for two factor verification to him which he uses to log into the SIM registration app of the telecom company to register subscriber SIM cards with other people's Ghana card details without their consent and sell SIM at GH¢150 each," the Director General of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID), DCOP Lydia Donkor, said at a press briefing on May 6, 2025.
