The Uganda Communication Commission (UCC) says a total of 1.4 million SIM cards have so far been disconnected in an ongoing crackdown on improperly registered lines. Rebbeca Mukite, the UCC head of Public and International Relations, however, said Saturday that they expect the number of disconnected lines to drop because more people are coming out to comply with the directive to regularise their registration.She made the revelation while appearing at a local radio talk show in Kampala. “We now need to take this regularisation a notch higher by using *197# mechanism on our phones. Please choose option two to find out the number of SIM cards that are registered in your name. “That is the best way we are going to weed out the ;bafere ;(telephone con-people), “she said. She said that people whom she described as crooks are currently using SIM cards retrieved from stolen or misplaced phones to orchestrate a series of frauds on the public. “Some people have not bothered to remove them (SIM cards) from their profiles. Because of that, those SIM cards are floating out there which have your name and biometrics. If they are used to perpetrate crimes it means you become liable. So please find out the numbers that are registered in your NINs.”