The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA) is stepping up its road safety enforcement with a nationwide daily crackdown on unroadworthy vehicles, as authorities move to remove potentially dangerous vehicles from Ghana’s roads.
Chief Executive Officer of the DVLA, Julius Neequaye Kotey, says compliance officers will return to the roads from next week, abandoning the previous practice of conducting enforcement exercises on selected days.
Speaking on TV3’s Hot Issues on Sunday, August 16, 2026, Mr Kotey said the intensified operation had become necessary due to growing concerns about the risks posed by vehicles that fail to meet basic roadworthiness and safety standards.
“Now that we are all seeing the bad effects of cars that are not roadworthy being on our roads, I think the public will be in support when we start taking them off our roads,” he said.
“Next week, our compliance guys are going to be on our roads and it is not going to be the two days norm; every day they will be on our roads,” he added.
The enforcement teams will inspect vehicles for several safety and regulatory breaches, including illegal or non-compliant window tints, defective tyres and brake pads.
The DVLA will also deploy available technology to identify suspected cloned vehicles and vehicles being operated without the required customs duties having been paid.
Mr Kotey also served notice to Private Vehicle Testing Stations (PVTS) that certify vehicles which fail to meet required roadworthiness standards.
According to him, whenever DVLA officers encounter an unfit vehicle carrying a valid roadworthiness certificate, the Authority will trace the certificate to the testing station that issued it and launch an investigation.
“If there are PVTS that have issued roadworthy to cars and we see the cars and they are not cars that are good to be on our roads, we will investigate and know which PVTS and we will close it down,” he warned.
He said shutting down non-compliant testing stations remains one of the enforcement measures available to the DVLA as it seeks to strengthen accountability and protect road users.
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The DVLA CEO appealed to motorists and the general public to cooperate with compliance officers during the intensified exercise.
“Support the DVLA compliance team to put these cars off our roads,” he urged.
The renewed enforcement forms part of broader measures by the DVLA to strengthen adherence to vehicle safety regulations and reduce the dangers associated with unroadworthy vehicles on Ghana’s roads.
