The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA) has announced that owners of vehicles registered before 2023 will be required to pay GH¢25 to have their records updated onto the Authority’s digital system.
Director of Driver Training, Testing and Licensing at DVLA, Kafui Semevo, explained that the digital onboarding exercise is aimed at verifying ownership of manually registered vehicles while preventing uncustomed vehicles from being captured in the system.
According to Kafui Semevo, vehicle owners will be required to personally visit DVLA offices or other designated centres with their vehicles, registration documents, customs declaration forms and Ghana Card for biometric verification.
He urged vehicle owners who are yet to be enrolled on the DVLA’s digital platform to take advantage of the exercise, noting that successful onboarding will enable them to obtain a title certificate and an electronic registration card.
Kafui Semevo added that these documents will become mandatory when the new licence plate policy is fully rolled out.
The onboarding process itself, verifying the documents, verifying the vehicle and saying it is okay in our records, you don’t pay for it. But the bio-data verification is at a cost, which is GHȼ25. Now, we are not charging you for the card and then the certificate of title now because if we do that, your title and then your card will come out with the existing number.
“It means that if you came back after the commencement of the new regime, what will happen is that you will be paying for another card, which we don’t want to do. So you, at this point, just pay for the verification and then when we start the new system, you can obtain your title with a new number and the certificate also with a new number, which I think is fair,” he said at press conference.
Kafui Semevo also clarified that vehicles registered between January 2022 and December 2023 are not yet included in the onboarding process, and owners of such vehicles have been advised to wait until the DVLA officially invites them to participate.
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