The Ghana Drivers and Car Owners Association have expressed their displeasure concerning initiatives by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA) to introduce a new smart driving license.
The new smart license which will roll out on Nov 7, comes with a security embedded chip which contains the information of every driver and will make it extremely difficult to fake licenses. The card will be linked to the new national identification system.
Nevertheless, the association says the DVLA should “refrain from trying to alter the current licensing process for drivers” or face the wrath of its members.
After carefully assessing the new system, the association of drivers and car owners believe that the new license system will not only create severe inconveniences but also derail its members’ work.
“An instance is when an already-licensed driver will have to pay before he is given the digital license by the DVLA,” a statement from the association said.
The association also argued that “under the new module, drivers who present automatic vehicles to the DVLA during the acquisition of a license shall not be permitted to drive any manual vehicle whereas our road regulations have not made any specific biased guidelines in favour of the manual or automatic vehicles.”
Drivers are to pay about GHc340 to acquire the new license.
Read also: Smart driver’s license to roll out from Nov 7 – DVLA
