Dear Sam George: The Database Isn’t Broken. Don’t Break It for Profit.
You stood in opposition and mocked the Ghana Card. You called the NPP’s SIM registration useless. You insulted the very foundation of digital identity in this country. Now, you want Ghanaians to queue again. Same data. Different scam!
Under the NPP, Ghana got it right. SIM registration was done once. Properly, seamlessly, linked to the Ghana Card. The NPP built a digital identity architecture that worked. They respected your time. They gave you a system any serious government would simply plug into and maintain.
But the NDC opposed it then. And now they want to destroy it to rebuild it.
Why? Because there is no money in maintaining a system that already works. The money is in starting over. The money is in procurement. The money is in “belly.” Today, you stand before us with a straight face, telling Ghanaians we must undergo another SIM registration exercise. Your reason? Institutional data was not synchronized.
That is a lie. A naked lie.
The NPP synchronized the data. The NPP linked the NIA to the NCA. The NPP did the work. The National Identification Authority already collected the primary phone numbers of every Ghanaian during the Ghana Card registration. They know which number belongs to which citizen. They have the biometrics. They have the facial data. They have the digital identity architecture, paid for with our taxes, built with our patience, perfected under the NPP.
So why must the ordinary Ghanaian suffer twice for the same information?
A government that respects its people would have taken the NIA database, integrated it with the NCA system, and simply asked citizens to verify their details. That is what the NPP did. That is what worked. That is what you are now trying to undo.
But no. You want queues. You want suffering. You want market women to lose a day’s wages, not because it is necessary, but because destroying an NPP legacy pays better than maintaining it.
In 2026, verification should not require standing in a line like it’s 1999. We are not living in the past. The NPP took us into the future. You are dragging us back to the sun and the dust.
A simple mobile application could allow every Ghanaian to scan their Ghana Card, complete instant facial recognition, confirm their phone number, and update any changes, all from the comfort of their home. This is not rocket science. It is basic digital governance. It is what every serious country is doing. It is what the NPP already delivered.
If the NIA database is robust enough to determine citizenship, voter eligibility, and national identity, if it is trusted for elections and passports, then surely it is strong enough to confirm who owns a SIM card. The NPP proved this. You are pretending not to know.
The real question is: Why must the people pay for your political tantrums? Why must the poor lose a day’s wages because this government cannot admit that the previous government did something right?
Digital governance is supposed to make life easier, not harder. Leadership is supposed to build on progress, not recycle suffering for profit.
We watched the NPP-led administration do this properly. They ensured a seamless SIM re-registration using our newly acquired Ghana Card. They built a system. They respected our time. And what did the NDC do? They opposed it. They mocked it. They called it useless.
Today, you are telling us the exact opposite. You are telling us the NPP did it “anyhow.” A lie. A desperate lie to justify waste and line pockets.
This NDC government wants to waste state resources and the people’s productive hours, not because it is necessary, but because it is profitable for your cronies. Because there are contracts to be signed. Because destroying NPP legacy projects pays better than maintaining them.
Ghana deserves systems that talk to each other. Ghana deserves leaders who respect time, dignity, and common sense. Ghana deserves the NPP’s competence, not the NDC’s recycling of suffering.
We are not guinea pigs for NDC incompetence. We are not cash cows for procurement rackets. We are citizens who already did our duty under an NPP government that actually worked.
Five Quick Questions for You:
- If the NPP successfully linked the NIA database to the SIM registration and it worked perfectly, why are you lying that the data is unsynchronized?
- When you stood in opposition and insulted the Ghana Card and the NPP’s SIM exercise, were you planning all along to tear it down so your friends could make millions rebuilding it?
- Why should a Ghanaian who registered once under the NPP be forced to register again under the NDC, if not to create opportunities for procurement theft?
- Is the NIA database only reliable when the NPP is in power, or does it magically become useless whenever an NDC minister needs a new contract?
- If the NPP could verify my identity with a simple Ghana Card scan, why does the NDC need my sweat, my time, and my money to do the same thing?
Sam George, the database is intact. The NPP built it well. Stop pretending it is broken so you can break it yourself for profit. Leave the people alone. For the people, for the honor, for our country. For the NPP’s record of getting it done.
By: Bright Owusu Bempah
NPPWorks #NDCDrains
