The Upper West Regional Manager of the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA), Mr. Emmanuel Klugah, has promised to descend heavily on unregistered motorbike riders in the region in June.
He told The Chronicle last Tuesday that the issue of using unregistered motorbikes in the region had become a major nightmare to his outfit.
According to him, the behaviour of the riders is not only a threat to activities of the transport sector, but had also become a tool for perpetuating various forms of crime, and that the earlier his outfit did something about it, the better it would be for the nation. �Next month (June) is an action month, and we are going all out for people using unregistered motorbikes in the region. We are ready for them, and well prepared for any eventuality,� he declared.
Mr. Klugah explained that not even the mediation and persuasion process employed by his office to drum home the need for motorbike riders to stop these behaviours could help solve the problem, and that they would now apply the law to the fullest.
Proposing a measure to curb the enormous carnage on our roads, Mr. Klugah entreated commercial vehicle owners in the country to effectively collaborate with his office in providing proficiency tests for their drivers.
According to him, though no scientific research had been conducted, his office had observed that most accidents occur as a result of bad driving, and that the collaboration would go a long way to curb the situation. He explained that commercial vehicle owners only employ drivers based on what he described as �mouth introduction� by friends or relatives of the driver, without ascertaining whether, indeed, the person being introduced as a driver had the required driving certificate.
The DVLA boss stressed that though it would not eradicate accidents on our roads totally, the carnage could be reduced drastically, if the trend assumed a relatively more improved paradigm. Mr. Klugah further pointed out that the refusal of commercial vehicle owners to properly train their drivers defied logic, because the cost they would incur, when the vehicle is involved in accident, would be far more than the amount they would spend in training the drivers.
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