The Minister of Communications and Digitalisation, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful has announced the extension of the SIM Card re-registration exercise now slated to September 30, 2022.
In a Press Briefing in Accra today, Sunday July 31, Hon. Owusu-Ekuful said, “The statistics indicate that there was a 90% sim registration as soon as the first deadline was extended on 21st March 2022. Until a week ago, there were no queues at any registration centre.”
“People started to register when they realised that the deadline was imminent after going to sleep when it was extended. After 50% of those who have completed the first phase of the process have not concluded the second stage. They have linked their sims to the Ghana Card and so that cannot be attributed to Ghana Card challenges,” she said.
According to her, “the programme will be extended to 30 September to end on the anniversary of its commencement, that will give us one full year of SIM registration.”
Hon. Owusu further stated that any SIM that has not fully been registered by the end of August will barred from receiving certain services including voice and data services.
She also added that the full range of punitive measures will be announced at another press briefing in September.
“Kindly do not blame your service provider when you suffer that fate due to your own inaction.”
The exercise, which started on October 1, 2021, was initially intended to end on March 31, 2022, but the sector ministry extended it to July 31, 2022, because more than 7.5 million citizens and residents at the time had not yet received their Ghana Cards, which would have allowed them to register their SIM cards.
