Ursula Owusu blames SIM card, Ghana card brouhaha on NDC

The Minister of Communication, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, has blamed the NDC and the Minority in Parliament for the current issues that have emerged as regards the Ghana Card and SIM registration.

According to her, the NDC advised Ghanaians and members of their party to boycott the Ghana Card registration, resulting in the current difficulties.

The minister believes support from the NDC and the minority for the registration exercises on both fronts would have accounted for many Ghanaians acquiring their Ghana Cards, which would have translated to higher numbers in the SIM re-registration exercise.

“So, if the people do not have the Ghana Card and they don’t have it because they listened to the other side, we only have ourselves to blame.

“…we believe and continue to believe that the limitations on people in the way they will register for the Ghana card and we said that was not fair, and we still stand by that

That is also the reason why many ordinary Ghanaians do not own Ghana Cards, she should be worried that ordinary Ghanaians do not have the Ghana card because of her bad policy of limiting the source document in which you can access the Ghana card,” he added on the floor of the house on December 5.

The Communications Minister, however, indicated that the SIM cards of people who do not have Ghana Cards have not been blocked.