Minister of Communications, Digital Technology and Innovation, Samuel Nartey George has asserted that the country will soon undertake its first fully biometric SIM registration process.
The Minister at a media engagement on Tuesday, March 17, 2026, said the exercise to be conducted is not a SIM re-registration rather a “final SIM registration.”
He claimed that the registration exercise that was conducted by the previous NPP administration from 2021 to 2023 lacked biometric verification and has multiple problems.
He explained that the SIM registration exercise to be done will solve all the problems that came with the previous registration exercise.
“The critical thing I complained about for which reason I said the registration in 2021 to 2023 should not have happened was the lack of biometric verification.
“The lack of things that we are doing today, the use of OTPs, ensuring that SIMs for foreigners are churned after 90 days. So basically, what I am doing today is walking the talk that we spoke in opposition,” he stated.
He added “we are looking to fix all of those problems and I believe strongly that in my heart that this is going to be the very final SIM registration exercise that we are doing.”
“Mind you, I keep saying that this is not a SIM re-registration, it is a SIM registration. A re-registration means you are re-registering something that already exists, you are building on something that already exists. That is not what we are doing, the systems are completely different,” he emphasised.
Samuel Nartey George stressed that the new SIM reregistration that will soon be undertaken will make the activities of mobile money (MoMo) fraudsters very expensive to do.
He says that MoMo fraudsters will not be able to access any government services when they are caught.
“To a very large extent, it will make MoMo fraud very expensive,” he said during a press conference in Accra on Tuesday, March 17.
“When his Ghana Card is blocked, he loses access to every government service. So the cost to MoMo fraud is being raised to the level that it will be prohibitive,” he added.
Regarding the previous registration exercise, Sam George said that there is data in the current system that may have been fraudulently acquired.
“Migrating it into a new system without proper cleansing doesn’t solve the problem; it simply transfers the flaws,” he said.
