Vehicle owners with registrations predating 2023 will be required to pay GH¢25 to migrate their records onto the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority’s (DVLA) digital platform, as Ghana prepares for a new licence plate regime.
The Director of Driver Training, Testing and Licensing at the DVLA, Prosper Kafui Semevo, announced the measure at a press conference in Accra on Tuesday, January 13, 2026, describing it as a critical step to clean up the vehicle database and prevent uncustomed vehicles from entering the system.
“The onboarding process is meant to verify ownership of manually registered vehicles and block uncustomed vehicles from the system,” Mr Semevo said.
Under the process, owners of affected vehicles must personally visit DVLA offices or designated centres with their vehicles, registration documents, customs declaration forms and Ghana Cards for biometric verification. The GH¢25 fee covers the verification of biodata.
Mr Semevo urged vehicle owners to comply, warning of consequences for defaulters. “If you do not onboard, you cannot obtain a title certificate and electronic card when the new licence plate policy starts, and this means that you cannot register your vehicle,” he said.
“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 clarified, however, that vehicles registered between January 2022 and December 2023 are not yet required to undergo the process.
The directive follows earlier comments by DVLA’s Director of Corporate Affairs, Stephen Attuh, who said owners of vehicles registered before 2023 must migrate their records to qualify for the new licence plates planned for 2026.
“Customers whose vehicles fall under this category need to visit any of our offices across the country,” he said.
The new plates, expected to feature RFID technology for enhanced traceability, have been suspended pending parliamentary approval. DVLA Chief Executive Julius Neequaye Kotey said the delay was due to an unapproved amendment to the Road Traffic Regulation, 2012 (L.I. 2180).
