Drivers threaten strike over 'killer' policies

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APOSTLE ELIJAR 8 years ago

DID YOU HAVE JOB FOR THESE PEOPLE?
WE ARE IN OUR OWN COUNTRY, YET STILL THE WHITE MAN IS STILL USING US. WHEN ARE WE GOING TO LEARN?
MANY PEOPLE TURNED INTO ARM RUBBING BECAUSE THERE IS NO JOB AND THOSE WHO ARE MANAGING THE ...
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DID YOU HAVE JOB FOR THESE PEOPLE?
WE ARE IN OUR OWN COUNTRY, YET STILL THE WHITE MAN IS STILL USING US. WHEN ARE WE GOING TO LEARN?
MANY PEOPLE TURNED INTO ARM RUBBING BECAUSE THERE IS NO JOB AND THOSE WHO ARE MANAGING THEIR LIVES ONE DAY AT A TIME TOO,YOU WANT TO TAKE THAT AWAY FROM THEM? WAKE UP GHANA.
vigour 8 years ago

The senseless driving in Ghana will cease if the DVLA had introduced this policy long time ago. How can you issue license to uneducated gu'ys to drive on the streets? They dont understand road signs and the only thing they do ...
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The senseless driving in Ghana will cease if the DVLA had introduced this policy long time ago. How can you issue license to uneducated gu'ys to drive on the streets? They dont understand road signs and the only thing they do best is to kill people on the street. Insurance Companies should make sure insurance is given to educated drivers or they are increasing their risk
Kojo 8 years ago

Guys reason up. It is not just reckless driving. One should be able to read when seen a sign post. I have been at the license office and seeing many people coming there for license who cannot even read. How can you read a "NO ...
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Guys reason up. It is not just reckless driving. One should be able to read when seen a sign post. I have been at the license office and seeing many people coming there for license who cannot even read. How can you read a "NO PARKING" if not the sign mark?
Tell the thruth 8 years ago

Good policy. To prevent. Unnecessary accidents.

Good policy. To prevent. Unnecessary accidents.
papa 8 years ago

Go who cares mahama will get good drivers from Cuba twiaaaaaa

Go who cares mahama will get good drivers from Cuba twiaaaaaa
CORNEY 8 years ago

I agree with the drivers,the most careless drivers on our roads are the so called educated people,not the commercial drivers,it is insane to blame these drivers for our own mistakes on the roads.

That DVLA is one of the mo ...
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I agree with the drivers,the most careless drivers on our roads are the so called educated people,not the commercial drivers,it is insane to blame these drivers for our own mistakes on the roads.

That DVLA is one of the most corrupt organizations in Ghana which needs to be abolished or the entire management is removed from that place,they put all these measures in place to dupe the drivers.
Some of the things they did was to introduce a policy that compels drivers to attend some so called driving schools they established to make money out of these poor drivers who have nobody to speak for them.
You cannot force people to attend driving school before they get license but this corrupt organization is forcing the poor commercial drivers to attend these mushroom driving schools they the officials have secretly established making some people to front for them.

In the past Ghanaians in diaspora could convert their licenses from where they live to Ghanaian one without too much problem but now whoever is incharge of that organization has made it so complex that one wonders how can we do such thing to Ghanaians in this modern or civilized world.
Now if you want to convert your lincense they will ask you to go to their headquarters to get a form and then pay money to the state you are coming from if you are coming from the US to get a driving record which you have to take to them before they can convert your license for you which can take days if not weeks.

How can we treat our own people this way making them to make money for foreign governments to check something that is stupid in Ghana,what do you need a driving record of somebody in America for in Ghana where you don't have a driving record for even one driver,what do you need their driving record for?

I was so shocked when my friend went to the DVLA and was told that is what he has to do and I thought he may have met the wrong person because that was not what I went through some years back but when we went to another place and they say the same thing,I said,we are really useless people if this is what we can do to Ghanaians.
A smart person could have asked them to pay even additional equivalent of one dollar to a road fund to covert the lincense instead of forcing them to pay tens of dollars to foreign governments which your government will not get even a dime,that stupidity is not what we call reforms.
PK 8 years ago

I agree with you. DVLA officials are extremely ridiculous! I wonder how DVLA can have the power to make such silly rules for people living abroad. I wanted to convert my US license to a Ghana one. The ridiculous head of the o ...
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I agree with you. DVLA officials are extremely ridiculous! I wonder how DVLA can have the power to make such silly rules for people living abroad. I wanted to convert my US license to a Ghana one. The ridiculous head of the office told me he would have to send my US license to the American Embassy to verify that it was genuine! How insulting. 98% of the people who drive in Ghana behave as if they are on a suicide mission. How did they get their driver's licenses? It's so scary to drive in any of our big cities. Yet this man was behaving as if drivers on our roads drive better than me. Most drivers don't care about all the simple rules that we all need to respect when we drive! And why treat Ghanaians living abroad like creatures who have come from the planet Mars? It's really pathetic the way Ghanaians treat their compatriots. People drive so carelessly because the police are so corrupt that they know they can bribe them and get away with anything!
maame 8 years ago

just let me know. Can you convert your Ghanaian passport to US passport? if that is possible, then we need to learn. if not, why complain we keep comparing usa and Ghana. I leave there for twelve years. it is a great co ...
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just let me know. Can you convert your Ghanaian passport to US passport? if that is possible, then we need to learn. if not, why complain we keep comparing usa and Ghana. I leave there for twelve years. it is a great country with the laws working. however, the crime rate not comparable with that in our countries. they have their ups and down just as we have ours. stop over generalizing
CORNEY 8 years ago

I don't think you learn much in the US for the whole twelve years.
First of all,you must know that it is not only the US licenses that you can convert but all other countries and the same time the process of converting the ...
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I don't think you learn much in the US for the whole twelve years.
First of all,you must know that it is not only the US licenses that you can convert but all other countries and the same time the process of converting the license is a policy Ghana has over the years to help Ghanaians living abroad and investors going about their business as quickly as they can in the interest of the country and in addition to that you can use your so called international lincense from Ghana to drive in the US without going to any office to do anything.

In the past we were using our license from the US to drive in Ghana without a problem but the government at that time which I believe realized they could get a revenue from converting the lincense introduced that policy which I believe is excellent policy although not perfect due to the usual Ghana's bereaucracy but because of the mindset we have in Ghana that if I'm not the one who introduced something I must get rid of it or change it,whoever is incharge of the DVLA decided to frustrate people with this stupidity denying government of that revenue.
Don't forget that we can still use our various lincense from the US to drive in Ghana and buy our way when pull over by the police or acquire international lincense from AAA before coming to Ghana to deny the government the necessary revenue from the conversion.

Just imagine somebody coming to spend just few weeks in Ghana being ask to go to the US embassy to pay for driving lincense record which the US embassy will tell you they don't do that rather they should go online to get the record as happened to my friend.

It is out of ignorance that this DVLA will ask Ghanaians from a place like the US to go to the embassy to get record of their driving.
When I first heard that the first thing I told my friend was that cannot be possible because the US embassy cannot have records of all the states,the US is a federal government that has no control over acquiring driving lincense in all the 50 states and District of Columbia,even the people working in the embassy from the US have lincense from different states,there is no federal lincense.

Tell me if it makes economic sense what this guy in charge of DVLA has introduced in the country,the guy is making things very awkward in that agency,his policies belong to old school mindset.
United Ghana 8 years ago

Well said. Very interesting revelations

Well said. Very interesting revelations
Justice 8 years ago

The most silly and reckless drivers are the illitrate commercial drivers

The most silly and reckless drivers are the illitrate commercial drivers
Ama Atta 8 years ago

Thank you for the various comments.This discussion in a way inform us that if we have any desire to convert our drivers license to that of Ghana we should first arm ourselves with our driving record from the state in which w ...
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Thank you for the various comments.This discussion in a way inform us that if we have any desire to convert our drivers license to that of Ghana we should first arm ourselves with our driving record from the state in which we reside in the Us. This is simple. We must learn to comply with policies in Ghana and stop irrational complains and criticisms.
Democracy 8 years ago

The introduction of minimum literacy level by the DVLA is most recommendable. In fact, it should not begin or end there: this is what we need to sustain our democracy.
We are suffering in this country because wrong voters ar ...
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The introduction of minimum literacy level by the DVLA is most recommendable. In fact, it should not begin or end there: this is what we need to sustain our democracy.
We are suffering in this country because wrong voters are voting for wrong leaders. Thumb printing should have no place in our democracy. Anybody who does not understand the policies of any candidate should not be coerced to vote for such candidate.
People who cannot read cannot understand what democracy is all about - I mean democracy as we practise it now! Everybody who qualifies to vote should be allowed to vote but not by thumb printing! There should be no pictures on ballot papers. Rather candidates should be identified on ballot papers by their names and voters must be given pens and pencils to make their choice. I presume that should be the way to go, and our silly politicians and empty propagandists would not easily deceive our poor unsuspecting folks to vote for policies they do not know or understand.
Long live democracy!
United Ghana 8 years ago

Illiteracy should never be an excuse to disenfranchise. The right to vote is a very basic human right. After all, literate people still choose wrong govts.

Illiteracy should never be an excuse to disenfranchise. The right to vote is a very basic human right. After all, literate people still choose wrong govts.
SAMITU ROSE 8 years ago

NDC IS OUT TO DUPE GHANA AND MILK US DRY WITH LOTS OF TAXES WHILST THEY BLOAT CONTRACTS TO LINE THEIR PRIVATE POCKETS AND DESTROY OUR ECONOMY......NOW NDC IS KNOWN TO BE NOTHING BUT VAMPIRES, SHARKS,AND WOLVES...

NDC IS OUT TO DUPE GHANA AND MILK US DRY WITH LOTS OF TAXES WHILST THEY BLOAT CONTRACTS TO LINE THEIR PRIVATE POCKETS AND DESTROY OUR ECONOMY......NOW NDC IS KNOWN TO BE NOTHING BUT VAMPIRES, SHARKS,AND WOLVES...
Joe Turkey 8 years ago

"Render people jobless"! That's It's better to be jobless, perhaps, than to be dead

"Render people jobless"! That's It's better to be jobless, perhaps, than to be dead
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Selorm 8 years ago

Use local languages to explain the road signs to them. No need for this English BS.

Use local languages to explain the road signs to them. No need for this English BS.
losto 8 years ago

True that our drivers needs some form of education and we should allow the law to work. However, we are in a situation where by most of our drivers are not educated. What do we do going forward? 1. Develop our local languag ...
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True that our drivers needs some form of education and we should allow the law to work. However, we are in a situation where by most of our drivers are not educated. What do we do going forward? 1. Develop our local languages or produce the drivers test in some local languages. 2. Vigorous education for those who was want to drive for a fee. If cannot read and write then you cannot drive simple because you have to understand the highway code regardless.
RAWLINGS JIWA-TORONTO 8 years ago

STILL, ONE HAS TO LEARN Aa be de before being able to read our local dialect. Go to school is not a crime!!!HABA!!

STILL, ONE HAS TO LEARN Aa be de before being able to read our local dialect. Go to school is not a crime!!!HABA!!
humphrey 8 years ago

To be President you do not need education but to drive you have to be educated. This is Africa.

To be President you do not need education but to drive you have to be educated. This is Africa.
mama africa 8 years ago

Please mister DVLA is not the drivers who causing road accident is the bad nature of our roads, go Arabia land and see how people are driving careless but no accident because of good nature of their roads. Please is better u ...
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Please mister DVLA is not the drivers who causing road accident is the bad nature of our roads, go Arabia land and see how people are driving careless but no accident because of good nature of their roads. Please is better u advise your government to be construction of dual roads and see whether road accident won't reduce.
mama africa 8 years ago

Dual roads is the solution

Dual roads is the solution
steve 8 years ago

GHANAIANS MUST ACCEPT CHANGE. DRIVERS WHO IGNOR DRIVING RULES ARE THE MAIN CAUSES OF MANY ACCIDENTS.
MANY DRIVERS CANNOT READ BETWEEN THE LINES LET ALONES KEEP AND OBSERVE DRIVING RULES,
THEY ARE CARELESS AND DO ANYTHING T ...
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GHANAIANS MUST ACCEPT CHANGE. DRIVERS WHO IGNOR DRIVING RULES ARE THE MAIN CAUSES OF MANY ACCIDENTS.
MANY DRIVERS CANNOT READ BETWEEN THE LINES LET ALONES KEEP AND OBSERVE DRIVING RULES,
THEY ARE CARELESS AND DO ANYTHING THEY LIKE WHEN SITTED BEHIND THE STEER. IT IS NOT STRIKE BUT THEY SHOULD LEARN TO DO WHAT IS RIGHT, AND BEING ARRONGANT.

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