Vehicle owners who are yet to go through the vehicle onboarding process have been entreated to do so before the roll-out of the new licensing plate by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA).

The Director, Driving Training, Testing, and Licensing (DTTL), Mr Kafui Semevo, speaking at a press conference in Accra on Tuesday, explained that vehicle owners would be required to personally visit DVLA offices and other designated centres across the country with their vehicles, registration documents, customs declaration forms, and Ghana Card to have their bio-data verified.

Additionally, he indicated that vehicle owners who had their vehicles registered before 2023 will have to pay GH¢25 for the digital update of their records as part of the vehicle onboarding process.

He said that the vehicle owners, after going through the vehicle onboarding process, would be issued with an electronic registration card and title certificate, to enable them ply the road when the roll-out of the new digital license plate commences.

Mr Semevo noted that vehicle owners who did not go through the onboarding process to enable them obtain the title certificate and the electronic registration card, would not be allowed to ply the road when the new number plates commences.

According to him, the onboarding process was to ensure the verification of the ownership of manually registered vehicles and also take out uncustomed vehicles from the system.

Mr Semevo, therefore, urged vehicle owners who were yet to go through the onboarding process to do so in order to obtain a title certificate and an electronic registration card.

“We encourage all customers to try and visit our offices to be onboarded. If you do not onboard, you cannot obtain a title certificate and electronic card when the new license plate policy starts, and this means you cannot 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 stressed.

Furthermore, Mr Semevo noted that vehicles registered between January 2022 and December 2023 would not be onboarded yet, and therefore appealed to owners of those vehicles to wait until they were asked to do so.

The Chief Executive Officer of the DVLA, Mr Neequaye Kotey, also indicated that the Authority was on course to add more offices to its operations, thereby expanding its services. 

He also noted that DVLA would extend its services to Ghanaians who lived outside the country this year.

It would be recalled that the DVLA last year announced the introduction of a new digitalised license plate in 2026.

However, the DVLA, on December 2025, announced the suspension of the implementation of the new policy pending the approval of a proposed amendment of the Road Traffic Regulation, 2012 (L.I. 2080) by Parliament.