NCA gives clarification on using the Voters ID for SIM registration following Sam George’s facebook post  

The Member of Parliament (MP) for Ningo-Prampram, Honorable Samuel Nartey George wrote on his Facebook page about Ministry of Communication and Digitalization (MCD) through the National Communications Authority (NCA) directing the Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) to accept the Voter’s ID as a document for the registration of SIM cards. 

The NCA has released a statement making a clarification on such a claim. The NCA has said that authority has not issued any such directives to the Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) and Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) providers. There is currently no medium for registration with Voters ID in the SIM registration exercise; Ghana card remains the only ID.

NCA stated the fact that the discussion that went on during the 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 month 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.

If necessary, the general public will be duly  informed when both integration efforts are completed as well as the modalities and conditions of use. 

NCA still affirms that the Ghana card is the only ID for the current SIM registration exercise.

Find attached a copy of the statement below;