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The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA) has announced a suspension of road compliance fines suspended effective today, Wednesday, October 15, 2025.
According to the DVLA statement, the suspension will remain until further notice.
The DVLA, in their statement, highlighted that the suspension comes following public feedback and further internal consultations.
In a statement issued on October 14, the DVLA wrote, “The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA) announces to the general public that, effective tomorrow, October 15, 2025, all activities of the Compliance Team in relation to fines on our roads are suspended till further notice.
The compliance enforcement exercise, which was intensified and carried out on our roads to promote regulatory compliance, was aimed at ensuring that vehicles and drivers adhere to legal requirements to be on our roads”.
The statement added, “However, the Authority, upon further consultation and feedback from the public, announces the suspension of this activity in order to allow for an extended engagement on the matter before reintroducing the Compliance Team on our roads.
Although committed to ensuring safety on our roads, we equally appreciate the fact that the general public must be adequately educated to fully appreciate the responsibilities that unapproved conduct on our roads comes with.
The general public is specifically informed that this exercise is in relation to the fees and charges that were being enforced by the Compliance Team.
This press release does not in any way suspend the legal requirements for drivers and vehicles to use our roads”, the statement concluded.
In related DVLA news, the CEO of the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority, DVLA, Mr Julius Neequaye Kotey, has revealed that Ghana does not have any data on registered cars.
Mr Julius Neequaye Kotey announced that Ghana will be embossing its own number plates.
According to him, that is the only way to strengthen our security and stop the smuggling of cars.
He added that this is the reason why the DVLA is rolling out a new number plate that is scannable.
Speaking on Accra FM, Mr Julius Neequaye Kotey detailed, “No country in this world allows individuals to emboss number plates; that thing will change. Ghana will emboss its own number plates. We went to Nigeria, you cannot go to the roadside and go and emboss number plates and put them on a car.
Ghana go to 37, just pass by the roadside, they are there, I am not going to arrest them because it is not their fault. They are working for three people, and those people have 154 companies. Ghana must emboss its own number plates; that is the only way we can strengthen our security and stop the smuggling of cars”.
“The cars on the roads have no data. Ask EOCO how many times they come to us, and we tell them we have no data on them; that is why we are changing number plates, the one coming is scannerable. I scan, and I have instant information. EOCO will have the machines, Ghana Police will have machines, National Security will have machines, and the DVLA company officers will have a machine”, he boldly detailed.
See the statement below:
