The government plans to launch a new SIM card registration exercise in Ghana during the first quarter of 2026, the Minister of Communications, Digital Technology, and Innovations, Samuel Nartey George, has announced.
In an interview on Wednesday, December 3, 2025, Sam George criticised the previous SIM registration exercise conducted under the former Minister and the erstwhile NPP government, describing it as invalid.
He explained that the biometrics collected during that exercise were never cross-referenced against a central database, rendering the process ineffective.
“The registrations that were purported to have been done by Ursula Owusu and the NPP did not cross-reference the biometrics they took from you against that database. Nothing of that sort was done,” he said.
The Minister added that the Legislative Instrument for the SIM registration is ready and will soon be presented to Parliament for approval.
Procurement of the service provider to conduct the registration is underway through the Public Procurement Authority.
Sam George clarified that the upcoming exercise is not a re-registration but a proper registration from scratch. “We are not doing a re-registration.
We are doing a SIM registration. You didn’t do any registration; the former Minister just wasted everybody’s time,” he stated.
The Ministry has also coordinated with the National Identification Authority to ensure that all biometrics are matched accurately to specific individuals.
According to Sam George, about 80 per cent of the previous biometric data has already been cleaned and cross-referenced with the NIA.