The National Communication Authority (NCA) has released a statement stating the Ghana Card is still the official ID to be used for the registration of SIM Cards.
Yesterday, an MP for parliament in a tweet stated that Ministry of Communications had issued a director to the telecom networks to allow the use of Voters ID for the SIM registration exercise.
The Authority stated that it “has NOT issued any such directives to the Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) and Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) providers.”
In a statement, the NCA stated that it is working on a temporary measure to allow the use of Voters ID and Passports to be used on the official SIM Registration app.
“There is currently no medium for registration with Voters ID in the current SIM registration exercise; Ghana Card remains the only ID.”
“What was rather discussed at a SIM registration technical meeting yesterday [November 4, 2022] 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.”
The NCA said, “A similar effort with Passport integration has taken more than three months and counting and still not complete. If necessary, the general public will be duly informed when both integration efforts are complete as well as the modalities and conditions of use.
“To reiterate, Ghana Card remains the only ID for the current SIM registration exercise,” the NCA added.
