SIM Registration: If You Won’t Acknowledge My Work, Don’t Discredit It – Ursula Owusu-Ekuful

Former Minister for Communications and Digitalisation, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, has pushed back against what she calls misleading narratives aimed at distorting the achievements of the 2022–2023 national SIM card registration exercise.

In a detailed statement issued on March 20, 2026, she defended the registration campaign implemented under her leadership, noting that although not flawless, it established a structured, legally compliant system that linked nearly 30 million SIM cards to the national identification database. She said the exercise significantly enhanced Ghana’s digital identity framework.

According to her, the gains made during the registration period represented meaningful progress for the country and should not be erased by political rhetoric or inaccurate commentary.

She also criticised the current government for downplaying the foundations she and her team laid.

“This government should stop pretending to be starting from scratch,” she wrote. “Governance is a continuum. When progress has been made, the responsibility of any new government is to improve it not deny its existence.”

She questioned why the administration publicly criticised the former registration model only to adopt the same structure and methods again.

“You cannot condemn a process in the morning, copy it in the afternoon, and then claim in the evening that you have created something new,” she added.

Ursula ended her statement with a pointed message in Twi: “Wo nyi m’ayɛ a, mɛnsɛi me din!!” translated as “If you cannot praise me, do not tarnish my reputation.”