By: Angela Adu-Asomaning
The Chief Executive of the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA), Julius Neequaye Kotey, has cut the sod for the construction of a new office in Tema aimed at improving service delivery and reducing congestion.
Speaking at the ceremony, Mr. Kotey noted that the Tema Metropolitan Are, one of Ghana’s key port and industrial hubs has long been underserved by a single DVLA office.
This, he said, has resulted in long queues, unnecessary travel for clients, and increased pressure on staff. He explained that the new facility will offer essential services including driver licensing, vehicle registration, and roadworthiness certification to residents in Tema and nearby communities.
Mr. Kotey emphasized that Tema’s high concentration of vehicles, commercial transport, and industrial activity makes the new office critical. He described the current situation as a long-standing bottleneck, with drivers enduring extended waiting times and staff handling workloads beyond the capacity of a single office.
“The Tema Metropolitan area is home to one of the busiest concentrations of vehicles, commercial transport, and industrial activities in Ghana; it is a port city, a logistics hub, and a densely populated urban center. Drivers wait long hours; vehicle owners travel distances that should not necessarily require that alone. Our staff bears a workload that a single location was never designed to handle. It is a bottleneck that we have tolerated for long, and today we begin to fix it.,” he stated.
Contractors have been given a one-year deadline to complete the project.
