The National Communications Authority of Ghana has stated in a press release that, the Ghana Card remains the only acceptable ID for Ghana’s ongoing SIM card registration exercise.
The release came on the back of claims made through a social media update by Member of Parliament for Ningo Prampram, Hon. Sam George, who doubles as a member of the select committee on Communications for the Parliament of Ghana stating that, the Voters’ ID was now a valid ID for the registration of the SIM cards.
The Authority stated emphatically that, no directive had been given to network providers to accept the Voters’ ID as an alternative for the Ghana Card for the registration of SIM Cards, but rather, discussions held were centered around measures to update the SIM registration App to allow temporally, the use of the Voters’ ID in the registration process.
Below are contents of the press release;
Accra, November 5, 2022: The National Communications Authority (NCA) has seen a social media post by Hon. Sam George, Member of Parliament for Ningo Prampram and a member of the select committee on Communications concerning the use of the voters’ ID Card for the ongoing SIM registration exercise, and wishes to clarify as follows;
a) The Authority has NOT issued any such directives to the Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) and Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) providers.
b) There is currently no medium for registration with Voters ID in the current SIM registration exercise; Ghana Card remains the only ID.
c) What was rather discussed at a SIM registration technical meeting yesterday was updating the SIM registration App to allow a temporal use of Voters ID; that development effort will take several weeks if not months to complete – and the deep dive technical discussions on the integration effort with the MNOs/BWAs have not even been held. A similar effort with Passport integration has taken more than three months and counting and still not complete.
d) If necessary, the general public will be duly informed when both integration efforts are complete as well as the modalities and conditions of use.
e) To reiterate, Ghana Card remains the only ID for the current SIM registration exercise
