Prosper Kafui Semevo, Director of Driver Training, Testing, and Licensing at the DVLA, has announced that owners of vehicles registered before 2023 will have to pay GH¢25 to the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA) to update their records digitally.
Addressing a news conference in Accra on Tuesday [Jan 13, 2026], he stated that the onboarding procedure was designed to verify the ownership of manually registered automobiles while also blocking uncustomed vehicles from the system.
Mr. Semevo explained that the onboarding procedure will involve consumers to personally visit DVLA offices and other authorised centres with their vehicles, registration documents, custom declaration forms, and Ghana cards to have their bio data checked.
In order to receive a title certificate and electronic registration card, which will be necessary when the new license plate policy is implemented, he has advised car owners who have not yet been onboarded onto its digital platform to do so.
He indicated that clients would pay GH¢25 to have their biodata verified.
“We encourage all customers to try and visit our offices to be onboarded. If you do not onboard, you can not obtain a title certificate and electronic card when the new licence plate policy starts, and this means that you can not register your vehicle. Again, if you fail to do it, you will be violating the road traffic law, and you will be dealt with by the law,” he stated.
However, according to Mr. Semevo, cars registered between January 2022 and December 2023 won’t be onboarded just yet, “so the owners of those vehicles should wait until they are asked to do so.”
In an interview with Graphic Online last week, Stephen Attuh, the Director of Corporate Affairs at the DVLA, explained that the authority has decided that owners of all vehicles registered in Ghana prior to 2023 must make sure that their details are transferred from the DVLA manual system to the authority’s digital platform as part of the planned rollout of new vehicle license plates in 2026.
Vehicle owners must therefore visit any DVLA office to ensure that their information is transferred to the authority’s digital platform as soon as feasible.
This will allow such car owners to obtain new number plates once the relevant Parliamentary procedures for the new process have been completed.
He explained that because automobiles registered prior to 2023 were manually processed, owners would be required to register on the authority’s digital platform.
“Customers whose vehicles fall under this category need to visit any of our offices across the country to ensure that their manual registration files are migrated to the digital platform before we finally roll out the new licence plate system,” he said.
Mr. Attuh stressed that when the parliamentary procedures were finally finished for the initiative to launch, cars that were not registered on the digital platform would not be able to obtain the new license plate.
The DVLA declared last year that new license plates would be introduced in 2026, with an anticipated start date of January. To provide traceability, the new system will integrate embedded Radio Frequency Identification (RFID).
However, on December 24, 2025, Julius Neequaye Kotey, the CEO of the DVLA, declared that the policy’s execution had been halted while Parliament approved the revised procedure.
He clarified that a planned modification to the Road Traffic Regulation, 2012 (L.I. 2180), which outlines the format and contents of vehicle number plates in the nation, was still pending in Parliament and had not yet been authorised, making the suspension of the policy necessary.
Source: newsthemegh.com