The Dri Management of the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA), have clarified news headlines over the extended services of Authority to selected foreign countries.
According to DVLA in a statement, “For clarity, the DVLA, through an arrangement with the Foreign Affairs Ministry has agreed to collaborate with Ghana’s Embassies across the globe to provide selected services including International Driver’s Permit and Driver’s Licence Renewal to qualified Ghanaian citizens domiciled in others countries.
This pilot phase will be undertaken in the United States of America, Canada, Germany, The Netherlands and the High Commission of the United Kingdom.
As part of the implementation plan, the DVLA wlill provide training to Embassy staff to do verification of documents and forward same to DVLA for processing, and once the processing is done, the Authority would then return the processed documents to the various Embassies for pick-up by the applicants.
According to the DVLA, this operation does not in any way mean that, the DVLA would post its domestic staff to work at Embassies in the aforementioned countries as the news headlines sought to portray
We wish to indicate that the Management of DVLA are committed to serving the interest of Ghanaians and has consistently pursued an agenda to place the services of the Authority closer to the people to minimize defaults as well as promote compliance.
“We want to reiterate that the Authority practices an open-door policy anc encourages the media and individuals who require clarity or information on the operations of the DVLA to approach the Corporate Affairs Department for such details to avoid such misleading reportage,” they concluded.
By Edem Mensah-Tsotorme