DVLA says 75% of Ghana ride-hailing licences checked were fake

The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA) says three-quarters of the driving licences checked among ride-hailing drivers in Ghana were fraudulent.

Julius Neequaye Kotey, the DVLA’s Chief Executive Officer, disclosed the figure during an interview on Atinka TV on Tuesday, 11 August 2026.

He said the finding had emerged from the authority’s ride-hailing monitoring system and raised serious questions over the authenticity of the documents being used by drivers operating on digital transport platforms.

The monitoring exercise identified a significant proportion of drivers whose licences were not genuine, according to Kotey. He said the figure applied to licences examined through the DVLA’s system in the ride-hailing sector.

“We have issues with ride-hailing drivers. When we checked the ride-hailing monitoring system on our end, 75% of the licences we checked in the ride-hailing space were all fake. Seventy-five per cent of the drivers whose licences we checked were all fake,” he said.

Kotey said the problem was not limited to one company. He named Bolt, Uber and Yango among the major ride-hailing platforms in Ghana affected by the issue.

“This includes drivers operating on platforms such as Bolt, Uber and Yango,” he added.

The DVLA’s disclosure relates specifically to the licences checked through its ride-hailing monitoring system. It does not state that every driver working for the platforms was examined, but that 75% of those whose licences were checked were found to be using fake documents.

The authority has described the scale of the finding as a serious concern because it directly affects the verification of the licences held by people working in Ghana’s ride-hailing sector. The statement also places the issue across several of the country’s leading platforms rather than attributing it to a single service.

Kotey’s comments provide the DVLA’s first public account in the report of the proportion of ride-hailing licences it had identified as fraudulent. His remarks focused on the results recorded by the monitoring system and the presence of fake licences among drivers using Bolt, Uber and Yango.

No further details were given in the disclosure about how the allegedly fraudulent licences were obtained, how long the monitoring exercise had been running or what action would follow against the drivers or platforms involved.