The Minister for communications, Digital technology, and Innovation, Samuel Nartey George, has reaffirmed that the country is set to embark on its fully biometric SIM registration process.
During a media engagement held on Tuesday, March 17, 2026, he made this announcement.
The Minister clarified that the forthcoming exercise is not a SIM re-registration but rather a “final SIM registration”.
According to the Ningo Prampram Member of Parliament, the previous registration exercise conducted by the NPP administration from 2021 to 2023 was deficient in biometric verification and plagued with multiple issues.
He stated that the upcoming SIM registration exercise will rectify all the problems associated with the previous exercise.
“The critical thing I complained about, for which reason I said the registration in 2021 to 2023 should not have happened, was the lack of biometric verification.
“The lack of things that we are doing today, the use of OTPs, and ensuring that SIMs for foreigners are churned after 90 days. So basically, what I am doing today is walking the talk that we spoke in opposition,” he stated.
The Minister noted that “we are looking to fix all of those problems, and I believe strongly in my heart that this is going to be the very final SIM registration exercise that we are doing.”
He added, “Mind you, I keep saying that this is not a SIM re-registration; it is a SIM registration. A re-registration means you are re-registering something that already exists; you are building on something that already exists. That is not what we are doing; the systems are completely different.”
He further disclosed that the new SIM reregistration that will soon be undertaken will make the activities of mobile money (MoMo) fraudsters very expensive to do.
“To a very large extent, it will make MoMo fraud very expensive,” he said during a press conference in Accra on Tuesday, March 17.
“When his Ghana Card is blocked, he loses access to every government service. So the cost of MoMo fraud is being raised to the level that it will be prohibitive,” he added.
He claimed that the previous registration done may have data in the current system that may have been fraudulently acquired.
“Migrating it into a new system without proper cleansing doesn’t solve the problem; it simply transfers the flaws,” he said.
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
