Anytime l am about recoiling into my shell to enjoy and observe some modicum of peace, someone wakes me up either through his/her actions, inaction or unwarranted and unsolicited effusions.
This time round, it is no mean a personality than Vandal Julius Neequaye Kortey, Chief Executive Officer of DVLA. Since his assumption of the aforementioned august office, l have followed his ‘dos and donts’ closely with keen interest.
Axiomatically, he seems to be doing well, the only snag being his total and absolute lack of appreciation for these two vocabularies – Regulatory and income generation. Oh yes, he is yet to draw a clear line between his regulatory and income generating roles of DVLA. It seems to me that the latter has taken a wider part of his brains, which for all intents and purposes, is very fatal.
Yah, I listened to him with rapt attention, his interview on TV3 Hot Issues hosted by Khaminni Amanor on Sunday, 25/01/2026 – think that was his second appearance on the program.
TOYOTA VOXY ON THE BLOC
Khaminni relevantly introduced a subject that chipped in the new chap on the bloc – TOYOTA VOXY.
She wanted to know from Nii Julius why, despite public uproar against the commercialization of Voxys vehicles for stated reasons, his outfit has continually been registering same to wreak havoc on innocent citizenry.
Without any hesitation, calibration and think through, Nii Julius went ”amok”, yah, he was blunt and gave an “unvandal” response, to wit – the law is clear, only ONE DOOR vehicles cannot be registered for commercial purposes – Really? Oh yes, not even an intervention by National Road Safety Authority, NRSA, will let him ‘buckle up’.
Invariably, he was telling the host and indeed all right thinking Ghanaians that he cared not, whether or not, his actions and inactions amounted to sorrows, grieves, bereavement, mention them, in some homes. If he cares to know, and is hereby put on active notice that, in law, provisions are made for COMMON SENSE, aka, common sense theory in Interpretation of statutes and deeds, among others.
Wow, this quickly sent me firstly to Odorkor of the 70/80s. There was a defunct transport entity with yellow buses of various and varied makes and brands, scattered all over the capital, Accra. We presently complaining of stranded commuters whilst this “yellow, yellow” bus blueprints is firmly etched in the history of our intra city road transport mix.
I cannot tell whether or not, it was planned, orchestrated, accidental, incidental or coincidental, but all the aforesaid buses had very catchy and funny inscriptions thereon. One of such inscriptions read: PEOPLE LIKE THESE. Need l add to?
From Odorkor l dashed through my nursey school days only to chance upon the issue of a classmate in the late 60s. l do not know his whereabouts as of now, yet his behaviour then is of relevance here.
You know what, this classmate of mine for reasons, which set all the class thinking and wondering, was the fact that he always sought solace beneath tables.
In his escapade, he, instead of bending when he got to the table, will instead, be knocking his head against the table to and fro, hurting himself till he was assisted to bend in order to access the beneath.
Such shall be equated with the pronouncement of Nii Julius on Voxys during his encounter with Khaminni – yah any motorized object, save one door, will find space at the DVLA Registry notwithstanding the ramifications thereof – woow!!!
I cannot conclude this piece without mentioning this Policeman stationed at Asante Effiduasi whose pronouncement really brings to fore the effusion of Nii Julius with Kaminni.
Yah, I was at Asante Effiduasi, my beloved hometown for a brief visit somewhere in 2024. Whilst there, l took ‘judicial notice’ of a ragged man who was always brandishing “bratan” (Addai cutlass), meandering briskly, wearing a serious looking face, through human traffic at the lorry station/market enclave.
Innocently thinking the Effiduasi Police were unaware, l armed myself with pictures thereof and headed to the Police Station to prompt them but l was wrong. After listening to my concerns, the Policeman on duty inquired if l was a native of the town which l answered in the affirmative pointing to my family house in the neighbourhood.
Then he exploded, yah, let loose his foul mouth, to wit, “have you ever heard and or witnessed the ragged man attacking anyone? Wow !!!
That was a uniformed Policeman, trained and salaried from our taxes speaking on behalf of the Inspector General of Police, IGP.
The three scenarios l have painstakingly narrated above clearly fits into Nii Julius equation and depicts his psyche. l am afraid that until and unless he is kept in his track, bet me, wahala will be an inappropriate word for the industry.
DVLA WOES
No wonder DVLA top hierarchy are unable to stare the Government in the face and tell them that Okada will soon be substituted for disaster in the Oxford Learners Dictionary. Yah, words evolve and the Oxford dictionary is wide awake to absorb new words.
l need hardly state here that, notwithstanding, l am fully in support of his move to let DVLA assert itself via sanitizing the issuance of vehicle registration number plates among others.
Hmmm, how come that all the hens that once laid DVLA golden eggs (number plates, road use certification etc) are now in private hands under various and varied guises triggering Nii Julius to go overboard in order to rake in revenue into the DVLA kitty? Yah, stress free cash gone down the drain for whatever reason(s), kind courtesy, political expediency.
Nii Julius, as Vandals aptly put it, there is more room for improvement, aka, there are vacant rooms but none is occupying same.
Fractured Peace.
Written by Osei Kwabena Esq, Etia Street, Asante Effiduasi
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