The Driver Vehicle and Licensing Authority (DVLA) has rubbished reports that it is destroying documents on government vehicles onstensibly to enable government officials steal them following the ruling party’s defeat in the December 7, election.
There have been claims especially on social media suggesting that the DVLA Chief Executive has formed a Special Task Force which is selecting and destroying documents on government vehicles especially Toyota V8s and other SUVs.
There have been instances where public officers including ministers have gone home with state vehicles after their political parties have lost elections. The movement of car documents by the DVLA in large quantities sparked the rumours on social media.
However the Public Relations Officer of the DVLA, Kweku Darko Afari in an interview on Accra based Neat FM urged the public to disregard the rumours as it is untrue.
He explained that the DVLA is undertaking a digitization programme of all documents on vehicles it has registered so it can have soft copies, as the DVLA was losing some documents duee to poor handling.
“We decided that inspite of the cost involved we’ll digitize records on vehicles. This exercise is done in phases so that customers don’t suffer. We don’t allow them to take all documents at a go, so that while we digitize the records, some will be available so that if customers want to transact business that involve their vehicle records, will have access to them.
“So what you are seeing is simply the fact that one batch of the digitized records has been concluded and it’s being brought back to the 37 office of DVLA so that another batch can be picked. Those are the pictures you’re seeing, it has nothing to do with government vehicles and DVLA trying to hide some documents.
Mr Kweku Darko Afari, noted that the DVLA carries advertisement whenever the exercise gets to a particular region, informing customers about it so that they are not alarmed should they go to a DVLA and not find the vehicle documents.
