The Driver and Car Licensing Authority (DVLA) has pledged to liaise with the workplace of the Nationwide Chief Imam to sensitise motorbike operators on the nation’s street security laws.
Such a transfer, the Chief Executive of the DVLA, Mr Julius Neequaye Kotey, mentioned had change into crucial in view of the government’s transfer to legalise the commercial operations of motorbike operators popularly referred to as okada.
Mr Kotey made the promise when he paid a courtesy name on the Nationwide Chief Imam, Sheikh Osman Nuhu Sharubutu, at his residence in Accra on Wednesday.
He defined that it was important to liaise with the Workplace of the Chief Imam within the sensitisation and coaching of motorbike riders as most of them have been from the Muslim neighborhood and had respect for the Chief Imam.
As a part of the courtesy name, the DVLA donated assorted objects, together with packs of bottled water, cartons of milo, and different consumables to the Chief Imam.
For his half, the Chief Imam, Sheikh Sharubutu recommended the Chief Govt of the DVLA for his choice to liaise along with his workplace within the schooling and practiceing of motorbike riders forward of the legalisation of the industrial motorbike enterprise.
He mentioned he believed within the capabilities of Mr Kotey to ship on his mandate because the Chief Executive of the DVLA.
He additionally urged the workers of the DVLA to assist Mr Kotey in ensuring that the mission and imaginative and prescient of the Authority was achieved.
BY BENJAMIN ARCTON-TETTEY
