DVLA re-affirm stance to go autonomous

Story by Isaac Asare    

                   

The Director Driving Training and Operations at the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority, DVLA, Cheyuo Wienaa Musah, has re-affirmed the authority’s readiness to wean itself off government subvention based on its financial footing coupled with the requisite human resource capacity. 

He said his outfit was currently undergoing massive transformational change and with the necessary equipment and expertise in place, it was poised to becoming self-sufficient. 

Mr Wienaa-Musah further underlined increased revenue generation, cost reduction and improved customer relation and training as some of priority areas that are being given the necessary attention to enhance the growth of the authority. 

Mr Wienaa- Musah disclosed this when management of the authority led by the new, CEO, Ing Noble John Appiah payed a day’s working visit to the Upper East Region to interact with staff and familiarize himself with their operations.

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The Finance Minister, Seth Tekper in his presentation of the 2014 budget announced government’s resolved to wean twelve agencies off government funding within a spate of three years. 

Government agencies involves are DVLA, the EPA and the Energy commission. 

These agencies are the first batch to be affected by this new policy.  

 Nine other agencies are being identified and reviewed to follow suit in subsequent years. 

According to the Finance Minister, there were enough justifications for them to go independent considering their financial competencies and proven track record in the area of revenue generation. 

Therefore, the decision by management of DVLA to go autonomous was in accordance with the proposed policy by government.  Mr Cheyuo Wienaa Musah is the Director Driving Training and Operations at the DVLA.

 He told Radio Ghana that the authority has conducted the necessary SWOT analysis to that effect and was confident that the with the right policies in place, they are ready for the task.

Mr Wienaa Musa said in the face of its transformational revolution, the authority was working tirelessly to redeem its corporate image and build on customer satisfaction to discard the long-held negative public perception on its activities. 

According to him, efforts are being made to improve customer relation while ensuring a high  level of transparency in their operations.   

This, he said was a one of the major reasons for embarking on the nationwide tour to remind staff of their core duties. He spoke about effects of the proposed transformational change.

He moreover disclosed that the authority was bent on setting a standard for itself, adding that efforts were being made to produce licensing documents that are valid enough to meet international standards and that the authority was aligning processes to achieve the set objective.

In November last year, government appointed Ing Noble John Appiah as the new CEO for the DVLA. Ing Appiah, a former Managing Director of Metro Mass Transit, succeeded Mr Rudolf Beckley.    

The nationwide tour was to afford the CEO the platform to acquaint himself with staff, sell his philosophy and chart the way forward in addressing their challenges.

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