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Minister for Communications, Digital Technology, and Innovation, Samuel Nartey George, has made it clear that telecom companies in Ghana will cover all the costs of the upcoming SIM card registration exercise.
During an appearance on The Point of View on Channel One TV on Monday, April 14, Sam George stressed that this decision is part of his plan to improve the country’s telecom system. He said the move is important to help clean up and strengthen the telecommunications infrastructure.
“They [telcos] will pay for it. I will make them pay for it. There is an LI that we will be laying before Parliament,” he firmly stated, referring to a Legislative Instrument that will soon be presented to Parliament to officially support the decision.
Sam George also compared his current plan to a previous re-registration exercise led by former Minister Ursula Owusu, which he criticized. “That was one of my criticisms of Ursula Owusu—that the re-registration she did… and that is why I have been clear that I am not doing a re-registration. I am doing a SIM registration,” he explained.
He made it clear that this is a fresh and well-structured registration exercise, not a repeat of the previous one. The new plan will rely heavily on the Ghana Card, which he called the “single source of truth,” to build a reliable and centralized database.
He also noted that the last regulation guiding SIM registration goes back to 2010 when Haruna Iddrisu was the Minister. At that time, the Ghana Card had not been introduced.
“The last LI on the record for registration was 2010 by Haruna Iddrisu and don’t forget that registration Haruna did—there was no Ghana Card at the time and so there was no single source of truth,” he added.
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