As part of the planned rollout of new vehicle license plates in 2026, the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA) has announced that owners of all vehicles registered in Ghana before 2023 are to ensure that their details are migrated from the DVLA manual system to the authority's digital platform.

Vehicle owners are therefore required to visit any DVLA office to ensure that their details are migrated onto the authority's digital platform as soon as possible.

This will enable such vehicle owners to acquire the new number plates when the necessary Parliamentary processes are complete for the rollout of the new process.

Speaking to Graphic Online's Timothy Ngnenbe in an interview in Accra, the Director of Corporate Affairs at the DVLA, Stephen Attuh, explained that because vehicles registered before 2023 were manually done, the owners would have to be onboarded on the authority's digital platform as a matter of necessity.

"Customers whose vehicles fall under this category need to visit any of our offices across the country to ensure that their manual registration files are migrated to the digital platform before we finally roll out the new licence plate system," he said.

He therefore asked owners of all vehicles registered before 2023 to ensure that they are migrated onto the authority's digital registration platform as soon as possible. 

Mr Attuh stressed that vehicles that were not onboarded on the digital platform would not be able to acquire the new licence plate when the parliamentary processes were eventually completed for the initiative to take off.

Last year, the DVLA announced the introduction of new licence plates in 2026, which was expected to begin in January.

The new system is to incorporate Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) embedded to allow for traceability.

However, on December 24, 2025, the DVLA Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Julius Neequaye Kotey, announced that the implementation of the policy had been suspended pending approval of the new process by Parliament.

He explained that the suspension of the policy became necessary because a proposed amendment to the Road Traffic Regulation, 2012 (L.I. 2180), which specifies the contents and format of vehicle number plates in the country, was still before Parliament and had not yet been approved.