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Kwasi Agyemang Busia (third from right) with other dignitaries |
The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA), has announced the introduction of Tertiary Students Drive Service (TSDS) initiative across all tertiary institutions in the country.
The initiative, according to the Chief Executive Officer
(CEO) of the DVLA, Mr Kwasi Agyemang Busia, was to afford students the
opportunity to acquire a valid driver's licence while in school.
To this end, he called on tertiary students to take
advantage of the opportunity to be competent licensed drivers before completing
their field of academic studies in their various institutions.
The DVLA CEO disclosed these here last Friday in Tamale, as
part of his official working visit to the University for Development Studies
(UDS).
The visit, he noted, was to partner with the authorities to
build and establish a research development for the two institutions for the
students to benefit.
Mr Busia stated that their partnership with the university
would also go a long way to cement a strong relationship with the two
institutions, to build a solid strategy to educate the general public and the
student's body more on the road safety.
The CEO said the research would dwell much on the efforts by
the partner institutions to improve on the road safety in northern part of the
country.
He said the DVLA over the past years had been working
closely with the National Road Safety Authority (NRSA), Ghana Police Service
(GPS) and other road user's agencies to make sure that there was sanity on the
road.
He added that the mandate of the DVLA was to ensure that
good driving in the country was achieved.
"We as an authority would continue to ensure that the
standard of good driving in this country be promoted to save lives," Mr
Busia added.
The Vice Chancellor of the University for Development Studies
(UDS), Professor Alhassan Seidu, thanked the CEO of the DVLA and his staff for
visiting the university.
He said the university was working tirelessly to strategise
to achieve the set goals of the DVLA.
Prof. Seidu added that the university would create a
research development department to fast-track the university in research, and
data analysis to compliment the DVLA reforms.
He stated that the university partnership with the DVLA
would give more opportunities for the management, and the students to have easy
access in acquiring their licence at the comfort of their own.
Prof. Seidu said this would also help them to mobilise more
revenue for DVLA and also aid them to maximise revenue, and to assist UDS in
data gathering and revenue generation for the DVLA and the UDS.
"We want to partner with them in terms of academy and
also designing of programs like transportation in economics so that we can work
closely with DVLA to ensure our students acquire knowledge in driving," he
stated.