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The National Communications Authority (NCA) has refuted claims that the Voter ID Card will be accepted for the registration of SIM cards.<\/p>\n
In a statement, the NCA said it has not issued any such directives to the Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) and Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) providers.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is currently no medium for registration with Voters ID in the current SIM registration exercise; Ghana Card remains the only ID.\u201d<\/p>\n
The NCA was responding to posts on social media by Sam George, Member of Parliament for Ningo Prampram and a member of the select committee on Communications.<\/p>\n
The authority clarified further that there had been talks concerning the updating of the SIM registration App to allow a temporary use of Voters ID.<\/p>\n
It added that \u201cthat development effort will take several weeks, if not months, to complete \u2013 and the deep dive technical discussions on the integration effort with the MNOs\/BWAs have not even been held.\u201d<\/p>\n
The NCA noted further that similar efforts with Passport integration have taken more than three months and counting and are still not complete.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf necessary, the general public will be duly informed when both integration efforts are complete as well as the modalities and conditions of use,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n