The Chief Executive Officer of the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA), Julius Neequaye Kotey, has disclosed that the authority is indebted to a company to the tune of $160 million.
He says the company signed a contract with DVLA under his predecessor, and it is expected to pay an amount of about $160 million for a three-year contract, yet the actual work of the company is unknown.
He stated that he was contracted in 2023 to provide a monitoring system.
Mr Koyeu, however, did not disclose the name of the company.
According to him, although the services provided by the company are not properly spelt out, the DVLA owes the company about $160 million and is expected to be paid at the end of 2025.
“There’s one which is very alarming. There’s a company whose name I will not mention; they had an agreement with DVLA, and anybody you ask doesn’t seem to know what the real work of the company is. They are supposed to do some system monitoring and something, and the Ministry of Finance is supposed to pay about GHC 50 million every year.
“We are in the third year, and they never paid any pesewa, and we are in the third year, and they expect us to pay all these monies,” he said in an interview on TV3’s Hot Issues, Sunday, March 30, 2025.
He further noted that the contract and its details have since been forwarded to the Transport Minister, Joseph Bukari Nikpe, for further action.
“The contract was signed in 2023. So far, as we started with the same software on January 1, we have committed to that contract until the end of the year, and it is amounting to about 160 million Ghana cedis for that company alone.
“So I have sent the contract to the sector minister, who is also a member of parliament for Saboba, and then we take it and see what the issues are.
“Because we are already doing the roadworthy, so the system that comes with it, I thought it would be a combined contract for us, but they are different,” he stated.
He added that the DVLA owes another company about $5 million which was contracted for provision of internet services.
“There are three other companies that we are dealing with in dollars. The other one provides us with internet, and if you’ve been to our offices, you will understand the stability of the internet there – very poor.
“I’m not here to slant any company; they’re providing us with the internet, and we are going to review it. It was just signed in November 2024, and I think it’s about a five-year contract.
“It’s very poor (the company’s service); when you go to DVLA and people are in queue waiting for service to be rendered to them, it’s because of our system. The human capacity is there, but when the system is not efficient, it does not correlate with the human capacity over there,” he added.
“The third company has to do with the system that was procured for vehicle registration. For the system that was procured for vehicle registration, that system too – the entire contract was about $14 million, and they paid only $2 million, leaving $12 million for us to come and pay,” he said.
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
