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Minister for Communications and Digitalisation, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful has hinted that plans are underway to introduce a mobile application that will aid self-registration in the ongoing national SIM card registration exercise.

According to her, only about two million of the population as of the end of last week have been able to register successfully, a situation she describes as very low. This is due to the number of SIM cards yet to be registered, hence the need for the ‘app’ to facilitate the exercise.

Speaking at at the 11th Ghana Information Technology and Telecom Awards in Accra, where she won the Digital Leader Year, Mrs. Owusu-Ekuful said “I must say in the coming weeks, we’re working on launching an application for self-registration.”

“A mobile application that will let individuals register at their own convenience without any delay. This is because looking at the figures it is just about two million SIM cards that had been registered so far and we have about 40 million cards nationwide to register”, she noted.

“I think that is on a bit low side hence the need for us to quicken the pace and clean up our digital eco-system for once and for all” she added.

On how the exercise was faring, she said “it is going well, but let me sound this caution that we are very serious about deactivating all unregistered SIM cards by March 2022 and therefore everyone who is yet to register must take the necessary processes to get registered before the deadline.”
The compulsory SIM card registration exercise begun in the first week of October 2021 for all mobile phone users to register their mobile numbers.