DVLA owes about $160m for a contract but nobody seems to know the company’s real work- CEO Kotey

The Chief Executive Officer of the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA), Julius Neequaye Kotey has revealed that a company which signed contract with DVLA under his predecessor is expected to be paid an amount of about $160 million for a three-year contract, yet the actual work of the company is unknown.

Although he did not disclose the company’s name, Mr. Kotey said the company was contracted in 2023 to purportedly provide monitoring system. However, he said nobody seems to know the actual services provided by the company but the DVLA owes the company about $160million and expected to be paid at the end of 2025.

Speaking in an interview on TV3’s Hot Issues, Sunday, March 30, 2025 Julius Kotey noted that the contract and its details has since been forwarded to the Transport Minister, Joseph Bukari Nikpe for further action.

“There’s one which is very alarming. There’s a company which I will not mention the name, they had an agreement with DVLA and anybody you ask doesn’t seem to know what the real work of the company is, they are supposed to do some system monitoring and something and the Ministry of Finance is supposed to pay about GHC 50 million every year.

“We are in the third year and they never paid any pesewa and we are in the third year and they expect us to pay all these monies.

“The contract was signed in 2023 so far as we started with the same software on January 1, we have committed into that contract to the end of the year and its amounting to about 160 million Ghana cedis for that company alone.

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“So I have sent the contract to the sector minister who is also a member of parliament for Saboba then we take it and see what the issues are.

“Because we are already doing the roadworthy so the system that comes with it I thought it would be a combined contract for us but they are different,” he stated.

Mr. Kotey further disclosed that DVLA owes another company about $5 million which was contracted for provision of internet services. He described the company’s services as “very poor” adding that DVLA will review the contract with the company moving forward.

The contract with this company was signed for five years in November 2024.

“There are three other companies that we are dealing with them in dollars. The other one provides us with internet and if you’ve been to our offices, you will understand the stability of the internet there, very poor.

“I’m not here to slant any company, they’re providing us with the internet and we are going to review, it was just signed in November 2024 and I think it’s about five years contract.

“It’s very poor (the company’s service) when you go to DVLA and people are in queue waiting for service to be rendered to them it’s because of our system. The human capacity is there but when the system is not efficient, it does not correlate with the human capacity over there,” he added.

A third company, he said is owed $12 million. According to him, the company was contracted to provide a system for vehicle registration by the DVLA.

Kotey disclosed that the contract was signed for $14 million but only $2 million was paid at the time.

“The third company has to do with the system that was procured for vehicle registration. For the system that was procured for vehicle registration, that system too the entire contract was about $14 million and they paid only $2million leaving $12 million for us to come and pay,” he noted.

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