Sim Card Registration Deadline Won’t Be Extended – Ursula Owusu-Ekuful

The Minister of Communication, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful has declared that the government won’t extend the current deadline for the sim card registrations.

She said the directive to flush out all unregistered sims will be in full effect after the deadline passes by the end of July.

Mrs Owusu-Ekuful said this during the climax of the Ahafo Regional celebration of the Girls-in-ICT Initiative held at Acherensua in the Asutifi South District on the theme “Access and safety.”

Mrs Owusu-Ekuful said mobile phone subscribers and users in the country had been provided with enough time and opportunity to register their SIM cards saying, “there is no way we are going to extend the deadline again.”

She explained that SIM card registration was essential because the exercise would greatly help the country in its efforts to prevent online and cybercrimes that had become more sophisticated.