Pastor Joshua Midson, head pastor of the new Atuobo branch of the Church of Christ has called on the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA) to rethink its decision "of denying 'trotro' mates and other unschooled", driver's licenses.
He said commercial driving had come to provide lots of jobs for a hitherto unemployed population, and that such a move was tantamount to taking people' s daily bread away.
Pastor Midson who visited the GNA office in New Atuabo to drum home his concern said, "formal education cannot be used as justification to deny the unschooled a license ".
He added that every human being is intelligent regardless of book knowledge, and called on the DVLA to rather consider other methods of controlling road crashes.
Pastor Midson mentioned drunk driving, stress, wrongful overtaking, over-speeding and, sometimes, natural circumstances as the main causes of road crashes which could are applicable to both educated and uneducated drivers.
The Pastor indicated that just as government schooled the general population on the biometric registration exercise, people requiring driving licenses to operate could also be given the same simple training.
Pastor Midson suggested to the DVLA to introduce medical mandatory physical fitness tests to check the suitability of would-be drivers.
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