The Vehicle Driver and Licensing Authority (DVLA) has teamed up with the national security in an ongoing investigation to fight  issuance of unauthorised vehicle roadworthy certificates.

The illegal act which is being perpetuated by members of the staff  is costing the nation millions of cedis in revenue, Chief Executive Officer of DVLA, Kwasi Agyemang Busia has said.

Members of the staff are said to be involved in the trading of software and data for the printing and issuance of vehicle roadworthy certificate.

Their activities according to authorities involves the ‘Goro’ community that sells this to unsuspecting vehicle owners.

"The roadworthy is a huge place of leakage for the Authority and we had to find a way to come up with a more secure, robust [mechanism] and leveraging technology again,”Dr Busia said.

“People could get the roadworthy certificate at the roadside. The Goro boys have duplicated everything we do here. So, we are making the document highly secured and test it so well such that even if they catch up we would have moved ahead.”

Besides the clamp down ongoing process to clamp down on the ignoble acts, the DVLA has also development of a new roadworthy certificate with enhanced security features which went into operation this year has recorded a jump of 360 percent increment in revenue.

He disclosed that the compromised nature of the system as shown by the national security document calls for immediate solutions in sealing the leakages and ensuring the system cannot be duplicated.

Mr Busia added that the revenue they are raking in is evidence that the measures taken are paying off.

He, however, said they are still working to eliminate the menace of the goro boys phenomenon completely.

Meanwhile, the goro boys [middle men] are meeting the DVLA officials to get their operations regularised.

Source:ghanaguardian.com