Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, the Minister of Communications and Digitalisation, has announced plans by the government to introduce an app to enable sim card registration by Ghanaians both inside the country and abroad.
The announcement comes barely a day after the ministry extended the deadline for sim card re-registration from the end of March to 31 July.
Speaking to Kwaku Nhyira-Addo on The Asaase Breakfast Show on Wednesday (23 March), Owusu-Ekuful said: “We are already working with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to see how we can resolve this peculiar challenge.
“Now, by the middle of April, a self-service registration app will be launched, which will enable those who fall in these categories outside the country to download the app and register their cards themselves with their passport if they don’t have the Ghana Card.
“We are also working with diplomats, who are not obliged to acquire the Ghana Card, to register with their passport … we are receiving the list of those who fall in these categories.
“Ghanaians on official visits outside, foreign students, those who have registered with our embassies outside, et cetera will be put in a special category,” she said.
Owusu-Ekuful said those who register using the app will be made to regularise their registration when they return to Ghana.
“They will be permitted to register [and then] if they arrive in the country, they will be sent notification to regularise their registration and complete the process. So, those are the arrangements we have for those categories of Ghanaians.”
Listen to the Asaase Breakfast Show interview with Ursula Owusu-Ekuful in the video clip below:
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