DVLA, EPA PARTNER TO CURB VEHICULAR EMISSION

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  The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority, DVLA, is in partnership with the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, to curtail vehicular emission into the atmosphere to address the problem of environmental pollution in the country.

 The collaboration focuses on gathering data about the seriousness of the problem after which the EPA will set the benchmark for the permissible emission levels for any vehicle presented for certification by the DVLA for the issuance of road worthy certificate. 

The Chief Executive Officer of the DVLA, Akwasi Agyemang Busia, disclosed this in Kumasi. 

He was addressing workers of the Authority at the Kumasi office as part of a working tour of members of the company’s Board of Directors. 

They had already visited the offices at Obuasi, Bekwai, Mampong, Agona and Offinso to learn at first hand, the working environment there. In Kumasi, the Board members were briefed on the operations and the associated challenges by the Regional Manager, Edmund Chei after which they met and interacted with the staff. 

The workers raised a number of concerns, most of which bothered on customer complaints and staff welfare. 

Mr. Busia disclosed again that, a preliminary eye test conducted on 100 prospective drivers in Tema by the Authority this year revealed that 90 of them had glaucoma and cataract, a situation he noted, has a serious implication on road safety in the country. 

He noted that the DVLA is making efforts to increase drivers licensing centres across the country to improve customer service.

The Board Chairman, Frank Davis, told the workers that, the Authority was last year, weaned off government subvention thereby requiring all the employees to work extra hard to increase revenue to fend for themselves and their operations.

 He blamed the problem of unsolicited middlemen popularly known as ‘Goro Boys’ to the complicity and connivance of some employees of the organization and warned such workers to change for the better or risk the appropriate sanctions.

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