Abigail Annoh
Mr Kwasi Agyemang Busia (middle) addressing the meeting. With him are Mr Darious Kollie (right), leader of the Liberian delegation and Mr Abraham Zaato (left), Deputy CEO, DVLA Photo: Michael Ayeh |
A Six-Member delegation from the Liberian Road Safety Secretariat is in Ghana to understudy the country's road safety management strategies.
Led by the Deputy Minister for Land and Rail Transport,
Darious Kollie, the delegation yesterday called on management of the Driver and
Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA) to learn from its experiences in a bid to
improve their road infrastructure and safety on roads.
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the DVLA, Mr. Kwasi
Agyeman Busia, welcoming the delegation, thanked them for recognising the works
of the authority in contributing to road traffic safety in Ghana.
Established by an Act of Parliament, Act 569, he explained
that the DVLA had been guided by its primary responsibility to ensure best
practices for licensing drivers and vehicles to promote road safety.
In view of this, Mr. Busia said his administration had
pursued a transformation agenda focused on "people, process and
technology" to uphold good driving standards in the country and ensure the
use of road worthy vehicles on Ghana's roads.
"In 2017 when we took over, DVLA was labelled the most
corrupt institution and as a management, we have worked to change that ill
perception riding on the back of research and technology.
We first set out to fix the people including our staff to
make sure they have the right attitudes and working tools, building their
capacity and welfare to work and deliver on the mandate then we gave priority
to our clients to understand how we can meet their needs by improving our
service delivery," he said.
Mr. Busia said digitising the operations of the DVLA has
been high on the agenda of management resulting in innovations like the new
smart driver's licence, review of testing, licence acquisition and renewal
process, among others.
"We are looking at sustaining some of the achievements
through enforcement, entrenchment, data analysis and other interventions to
ensure DVLA's efficiency while pursuing integrity, excellence, professionalism
and reliability in service delivery," he noted.
The Deputy Minister for Land and Rail Transport, Mr Kollie,
said Ghana and Liberia has had strong bilateral relationship which his country
intended sustaining for a long time.
He commended the DVLA for being a technologically driven
institution which was evident in transformation of most of its service centres
across the country.
"We hope to share and gain knowledge on your operations
which we believe we can practice in our country because currently our five-year
plan on road safety have some commonalities with Ghana's plan and we hope our
visit will give us better outcomes," he stated.
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