Two persons who had allegedly been producing and issuing fake road worthiness stickers to unsuspecting drivers have been nabbed.
The suspects, Joseph Tannor also called Jack and Isaac Enyan alias Boardman – termed in the local parlance as “goro boys,” for acting as agents at the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA) – were arrested last Friday.
They were believed to have been operating around the Western Regional office of the DVLA in Takoradi.
They were arrested in collaboration with personnel of the Motor Transport and Traffic Department (MTTD) of the Ghana Police Service in Sekondi.
Speaking in an interview, the Western Regional boss of the DVLA, Emmanuel Naah, mentioned that under the DVLA Act, his outfit was to promote driving standard and ensure the use of road worthy vehicles.
He asserted that drivers were supposed to present their vehicles to the offices of the DVLA for thorough inspection before the issuance of the road worthiness stickers.
He added that because of the forgery of the stickers by some unscrupulous persons, the DVLA introduced new electronic road worthiness stickers in December last year.
Mr Naah indicated that some persons were still producing fictitious stickers and selling them to unsuspecting drivers and that in collaboration with the MTTD, two of such unscrupulous persons were busted.
He pointed out that one of the suspects, popularly called Jack, was not a staff of DVLA but often visited the offices of the Authority.
He told journalists that the suspects were put before court yesterday and the case was adjourned to today.
As to how the two suspects were arrested, DSP Emmanuel Kobina Essel, Western Regional deputy commander of the MTTD, said it was upon a tip-off.
He indicated that for some time now, personnel of his outfit had been detecting fake road worthiness stickers with their two dimensional code scanner – the machine used in detecting fake stickers.
He maintained that during police investigations, his outfit had a tip-off that some guys who claimed to be staff of the DVLA, were behind the scam and that they were selling the fake documents at GH¢60 per one.
Meanwhile, the original one is sold at GH¢30.
“So I gave money to the informer to purchase one of the fake documents at a place while I hid myself around and so immediately the alleged goro boys collected the money, the police rushed in and arrested the suspects,” he added.
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