The newly reconstituted Board of the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA) has been charged to provide necessary guidance and direction to enable the Authority play its expected role.
Minister of Transport, Kweku Ofori Asiamah, who inaugurated the Board in Accra on Friday, said the role of DVLA was key by ensuring that vehicles that ply the roads were in good shape and being driven by qualified drivers.
Chaired by Frank Davies, the members of the Board include Kwasi Agyeman Busia, Chief Executive of DVLA, May Obiri-Yeboah, Director-General, National Road Safety Authority and Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP) Francis Aboagye- Nyarko, Director-General, Motor Traffic and Transport Department (MTTD), representing the Ghana Police Service
Others are Francis Larbi-Odame, Ghana Automobile Distributors Association, Francis Yao Agbozo, Ghana Drive, Dr Mahama Wayo, National Insurance Commission, Emmanuel Ohene-Yeboah, representing the Private Road Transport Provider and Lt. Col Harry Keelson, representing the Ghana Armed Forces,
The rest are Alhaji Amin Abdul-Rahaman, Ministry of Transport, Kwamena Duncan, Government nominee, Emmanuel P.O. Boakye, Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority and Robinson Kwasi Martey, Ghana Association of Garages.
The Minister noted that, over the past few years, the Authority had made significant improvement in its services, saying DVLA was an institution that had low penetration of ICT and confronted with myriad of challenges to one that epitomises excellence.
“The reportage about DVLA is no longer about ‘goro’ boys and unnecessary delays but one of good practices. We want this progress to continue to a new height,” he said.
Mr Asiamah commended the Authority for other remarkable achievements including the Mobile Service and the Tertiary Students driving project, TERTDRIVE which enables the public and tertiary students to access driver licensing at their doorsteps.
The DVLA, he said, had been mandated to register and track all earth moving equipment operating in the country.
The move, he said, was to ensure that mining operations were sanitised to safeguard the natural environment adding that government was very much concerned at the indiscriminate use of such equipment at unauthorised mining areas.
On behalf of the Board, Mr Davies thanked the government for the confidence reposed in them and assured that they would discharge their duties with diligence and service.
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