Minister for Communications and Digitalisation, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, has cautioned Ghanaians who haven't registered their SIM cards not to relax due to the extension of the registration deadline.
The SIM re-registration was supposed to end on Sunday, July 31 but the deadline has been extended to September 30, 2022.
The Ministry has also indicated that a self-service SIM re-registration App will be ready for commercial launch on Tuesday, August 2, 2022.
This is to aid in dealing with the challenges associated with the ongoing SIM re-registration exercise.
Each registration via the app which will be available for download on both android and IOS this week will be subject to a GH¢5 surcharge.
As of Sunday 31st July, 2022, various sim card re-registration centres were choked with dozens of Ghanaians anxious to meet the deadline to avoid deactivation but immediately after the Minister announced an extension to September 30, 2022, the huge numbers that thronged the centers have sudenly vanished.
Speaking in an interview on Peace FM's "Kokrokoo" morning show, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful cautioned those waiting for the September deadline in hope that there will be another extension to refrain from such attitude.
She encouraged them to take advantage of the opportunity to acquire their Ghana Card and register their SIM cards stressing, "the more we are extending, it becomes an additional cost" to the network operators and the National Communications Authority.
She noted that the extension is conditional, in that, those who haven't yet registered will no longer enjoy full mobile services.
"This one is conditional extension. We will review the process by the end of August . . . There are genuine challenges with some of the measures. In the coming days, we will see how we can resolve those, but at the end of August, when we review the process and still see the 'no queues' as we are seeing now, then those who haven't registered their SIM card will find out that their data is running faster than usual. It will be more expensive to use an unregistered SIM than to use a registered SIM and it's deliberate. There are other services which will be made difficult for you to use on your phone," she said.
She explained the significance of the registration exercise saying, "mobile money fraud, identity fraud, those extorting money from people and recent so-called financial services used to defraud people is all through our mobile devices. The registration will facilitate the search for those involved in these fraudulent activities".
"It is in our interest to register our SIM cards so we can reduce the SIM card-based fraud and the criminal offences in our system . . . Let's ensure every person would have registered by the end of September," she added.
Source: Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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PLEASE DO NOT COMPARE UK ***barred word*** TO THIS EXPENSIVE CARD FOUND ONLY IN ESTONIA, DENMARK. NO WONDER TERRORIST ARE ABLE TO COME TO UK AND HARM THE PEOPLE IF THEY HAVE THIS GHANA CARD SIM-REREGISTRATION THESE INFILTERATORS WILL NOT HAPPEN. WHO CARE IF THAT IS DONE IN UK THAT IS TERRORIST ARE ABLE TO INFRITERATE IN UK SOCIENTY AND CAUSES A LOT OF HARM. STOP LISTERNING TO NDC IGNORAN T, ARROGAN T, USELES SSSSS, UNRUL LY SIC K PEOPLE, A DYING PARTY. NDC WANT TO KEEP GHANA UNDER DEVELOPED. NO MORE EXTENSION NO MORE EXTENSION. SIM REGISTRATION BECAUSE OF TERRORIST THAT IS WHY GHANAIANS SHOULDN'T LISTERN TO NDC IGNORANC E, ARROGAN T UNRU LLY MENTALITY FOR REGISTERING THEIR SIM PLUS BIO DATA BECAUSE IS THE PHONES TERRORIST USE TO BOOMB THEIR VICTIMS SO THAT INFOMATION IS VITAL IF TERRORISTS CELLS ARE BEING FORMED THE WAY OF DOING SUCH SEARCH IS BY SIM, TO PHONES WAYS. WE SHOULDN'T ALLOW PASSPORT, DRIVERS LICENSE, VOTERS ID TO BE USE TO REGISTER SIM IN GHANA EXCEPT GHANA CARD AS GHANAIANS OVERSEAS VISIT GHANA THEY WILL DO THEIR GHANA CARD AS MY BROTHERS AND FRIENDS WHO CAME RECENTLY HAVE DONE. SO USLER STICK TO THE DEALINE FOR JULY 31, 2022 BUT ONCE YOUR PHONE IS SHUTDOWN REACTIVATE IT ONCE YO RECEIVE YOUR CARD JUST AS ANYONE REACTIVATING NEW PHONE EXCEPT THAT THE OLD PHONES HAVE THEIR INFORMMATION AND SIM ON THE TELECOMS DATABASE BUT HAS NO BIODATA INFOATION ATTACHED.
As long as NIA continue to have backlog of cards from April to print and distribute from April 2022 till now, you have no right to surcharge anyone for not registering by the deadline. Supervise the NIA properly and stop this pointless power talk.
Another story oo ....story oo ....story oo.- Burns Boy feat Ursula.
The Ghana Card is within the borders of Ghana and may be withing the ECOWAS countries. What about orther identification cards such as Ghana Passports, Ghana Driving Licence and NHI Cards. ??? Normally, Ghanaians travell outside the country with travel passports documents inclusive your visa and residential permits of the residing country. Dont down play the Ghana Passports bcos is more recognised globally than the Ghana Card. Its just honesty and intergrity within the circles of the government. Many of the ECOWAS citizens possesed various identies. eg ivorians have passport and Ivorian Card as their identity. The Gambians have Passport and Gambian Card to identify them as Gambians. Why is the NPP government only suffering Ghanaians by insisting with the "Ghana Card" as the only recognised card to identify ghanaians. There is nothing like fake ghanaian pasports or fake ghana driving licence. Its their fake assuptions as bastard politicians. NPP is playing a dangeorus politcal game with the identification of Ghanaians which after 2024 elections with the coming of the new government things might radically changed withing the political atmosphere.
Confused..In UK you just go to any shop and pick up any sim card for free and use it without registering any card. In other countries you register your sim card without a national ID, but just online to fill small details not anyone requesting you to provide ID to register your SIM. What is the motive behind registering just a common sim card with ID? Why even Ghana card in the first place. NPP government don't accept birth certificate or Ghana passport which is accepted by all countries when travelling.. messed up country. So sad.