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Sim re-registration: over 12 million Ghanaians recorded so far

Over 12 million people so far have merged their Ghana Card with their sim card, the Minister of Communications and Digitalisation, Ursula Owusu-E

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Over 12 million people so far have merged their Ghana Card with their sim card, the Minister of Communications and Digitalisation, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, has announced.

Speaking at the Ashanti Regional Consumer Forum on telecommunications services in Kumasi on Wednesday (20 July 2022), Owusu-Ekuful warned that the ongoing sim card re-registration exercise will not be extended after the deadline of 31 July.

“Over 12 million Ghanaians have linked their Ghana Card to their sim cards,” Owusu-Ekuful said. “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 31 July is a few days away and will not be extended.

“The sim card registration exercise is one of the consumer-centred initiatives which have 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.
Track and trace

Also present at the Ashanti Regional Consumer Forum were vulnerable members of society, such as the speech-, hearing- and sight-impaired and the physically disabled.

The re-registration is expected to help the national security agencies track and trace people who commit crimes using sim cards.

The deadline for sim card re-registration was extended to 31 July after initial challenges with the exercise. The original deadline was 31 March 2022.

The Kumasi forum brought together a cross-section of society, including second-cycle and tertiary students, traditional and religious leaders, civil society organisations, the media, trade associations, professional groupings, formal workers in the public and private sectors, security service staff and telecommunications service providers, as well as regulators.

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