The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has dismissed claims about approving travel for staff of the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA) to several countries to register and renew driving licences for Ghanaians living abroad.

In a statement issued on February 26, the ministry said its attention had been drawn to reports alleging that DVLA officials had been granted approval to travel to the United States of America, Canada, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Germany to provide licensing services to members of the Ghanaian diaspora.

Speaking at the commissioning of a new DVLA office in Bantama, Kumasi, DVLA Chief Executive Julius Neequaye Kotey revealed that selected staff would be travelling to the United States of America, Canada, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and Germany.

Addressing the staff directly at the ceremony, Mr Kotey said:

"Some of you, the DVLA staff, are travelling overseas to go and provide services in five countries outside. We have gotten approval from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for them to travel and do this for Ghanaians staying abroad. They don't need to come down to renew their one-year licence, which has expired. We will provide all licensing services for them."

DVLA Chief Executive, Julius Neequaye Kotey, discloses the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has approved processes for some selected DVLA staff to be stationed in five countries in both Europe and America to offer license services.#JoyNews pic.twitter.com/qMxwYoy6yo

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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, however, refuted these claims, stating categorically that "it has neither issued any directive to diplomatic missions abroad nor granted approval to any entity for such an arrangement".

It added, “The Ministry is not aware of any new government policy to that effect,” emphasising that “there is no record at the Ministry supporting the existence of this purported policy direction.”

“For the avoidance of doubt, there has been no formal engagement, no new policy presented to our attention, and no financial commitment that could serve as irrefutable evidence of such an arrangement,” the statement further emphasised.

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The ministry assured the general public of its commitment to transparency and financial prudence in public service delivery.

Meanwhile, the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA) has moved to clarify what it described as media reports suggesting that its domestic staff would be posted to foreign embassies to provide driver licensing services.

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In a statement dated February 26, which appears as a U-turn, the Authority insisted the initiative does not involve posting DVLA officers abroad.

“This operation does not in any way mean that the DVLA would post its domestic staff to work at Embassies in the aforementioned countries as the news headlines sought to portray,” the statement read.