Minister of Communications and Digitalisation, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful says the National Commuications Authority (NCA) and network providers will after the end of the SIM card re-registration exercise undertake another exercise to block all stolen phones in the country.

She termed the next phase of the exercise as "equipment identity registration" which is to ensure that the network operators identify stolen phones and prevent the thieves from getting access to the phones.

She revealed this in an interview with Kwami Sefa Kayi on Peace FM's "Kokrokoo" show Friday morning.

According to her, "we have a global blacklist and grey list of stolen phones. We will join that GSMA system to ensure that, globally, if you steal or buy somebody phone that has been locked, you cannot unlock it...You can't use it on any network".

"We are doing it in such a way that, as people bring phones from abroad to unlock them in Ghana, you can no longer do such unlocking again. It will disturb those into this business but we have already had talks with them about two years ago that we are coming to do this exercise", she elucidated.

"You just have to inform the central identity registry that your phone has been stolen and we will block the phone", Hon. Ursula Owusu-Ekuful directed people whose phones get stolen to do.

She believed this exercise will "stop phone snatching and other petty thefts".