Computerised Vehicle Registration Transactions
On Wednesday, February 18th, at the sitting of the House of Representatives Transport Minister, Colm Imbert announced that “Barring unforeseen circumstances, we hope that by the end of this year, 2009, we would be able to implement the new system for renewals, new permits, transfers of vehicles and so on, and then, over the next two years after that, we should be able to fully implement a completely-electronic computerised system for driver’s permits and vehicle registration at the licensing office”.
Well it’s about time!
I’m so proud that there is actually some effort on the part of our government to stem the corruption that takes place at licensing office. Regretfully, there have been too many road fatalities and car robberies that was a direct result of the corruption that has been allowed to go unchecked. Initially I was pleased with just the knowledge that the police were carrying out an investigation into fraudulent activity at the Licensing Office but the computerized system takes the cake. I guess because these measures exceeded my expectations. Not only did I think this should have done but I have an extremely poor perception about the functionality of our government and defense forces.
Mr. Imbert went further to explain to the parliament “You would be aware that we have entered into an arrangement with the province of Nova Scotia to introduce their system for driver’s permits and motor vehicle licensing. It’s a highly computerised system and the intention is that a number of transactions will be available electronically, once this new system is operational”.
Although the entire process is expected to take over two years it still better than the present situation.
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To me, the way to prevent corruption is to remove all monetary transactions from the Licensing Office. Once there is no money flowing through the office, the corruption will dwindle.
So, do what the embassies do – make the public pay their transactions directly to a bank account. They walk with the receipt to the Licensing Office instead of money. The money is already in the bank.
Yes, it is inconvenient, but people adjusted to this for embassies. They can do it for the Licensing Office.
Hell, let them pay at TTPOST, or any ATM, or lottery outlet.
Once no money can pass, the corruption goes. The bank/TTPOST/NLCB produces a statement and transaction must match the statement. End of story.