Over 12 million people have so far merged their Ghana Card with their SIM card, Ghana’s Minister for Communications and Digitalisation Ursula Owusu-Ekuful has said.
Speaking at the Ashanti Regional Consumer Forum on telecommunication services in Kumasi on Wednesday ( 20 July) Owusu-Ekuful warned the ongoing SIM card registration exercise will not be extended after the 31 July deadline.
“Over 12 million Ghanaians have linked their Ghana Card to their SIM cards, this shows that a lot of us understand the need for this exercise.”
“I therefore take this opportunity to urge all those who have not registered or are yet to link their SIM cards to do so, the deadline of 3`1 July is a few days away and will not be extended,” she said.
“The SIM card registration exercise is one of the consumer centered initiatives which has the key objective of creating a safe and secure environment for you to be able to use communication services with no fear whatsoever of any cyber attack.” Owusu-Ekuful added.
Also present were members of the vulnerable society such as the speech, hearing and sight impaired and the physically disabled.
The exercise is expected to help the national security agencies track and trace people who commit crimes using their sim cards
The deadline for the SIM card re-registration has been extended to 31 July after the initial challenges with the exercise.
The original deadline was 31 March 2022.
The Kumasi forum brought together a cross section of the larger society including second cycle and tertiary students, traditional and religious leadership, civil society, the media, trade associations, professional groupings, public and private sector formal workers, security service staff and telecommunication service providers and the regulators.
