The Accra High Court has ordered members of the Vehicle Embossment Association to serve the processes to lawyers of the Driver, Vehicle and Licensing Authority (DVLA).
26 vehicle embossment companies in December 2025 filed an injunction application against the rollout of the new Licensing plates by the DVLA.
The injunction application is asking that the DVLA be restrained from introducing digitalised vehicle number plates or any new registration plates until the court determines the merits of the case.
The Vehicle Embossment Association are also asking that the DVLA be prevented from implementing any alternative arrangement for the embossment and supply of vehicle number plates outside the existing framework involving the plaintiffs.
In court on Monday, January 12, 2026, counsel for the DVLA led by Sibiri Edmund Karbiri indicated that they had not been served with the writ by the plaintiffs, adding that a subsequent interlocutory application filed on January 6, 2026, was served on a national service person at the Authority.
Edmund Kabiri noted that enquiries at the court registry following media reportage about a grant of injunction against the DVLA could not ascertain the validity of the report.
He explained that the registry could not confirm if the writ had been served as there was no proof of service.
“We only got the latest application filed on 6th January, 2026 and it’s an interlocutory application meaning it is filed pursuant to a main suit which hasn’t yet been filed on us.
“Even this one was given to a national service person at DVLA.
“Earlier in December when we saw media publications about injunctions having been granted against the defendants, we carried out a search at the court registry to ascertain whether those publications were true.
“We discovered that the suit had been filed in December 22 but the registry couldn’t tell whether it was served or not. As at today we haven’t been served with the processes filed on December 22, 2025 which I suspect is the main suit.
“We haven’t even filed an appearance as at today. Our prayer is for an adjournment so we can be served so that we file our response,” Karbiri explained to the court.
The judge hearing the matter then ordered the plaintiffs to serve the writ on the defendants and adjourned the case to Monday, January 19.
After the proceedings, some members of the Vehicle Embossment Association, clad in red outfits and bands massed up at the frontage of the court complex.
Spokesperson of the Vehicle Embossment Association, Jojo Bruce Quansah indicated that rollout of the new system by the DVLA using a new body will render over 3,000 people jobless.
“All we’re seeking is our jobs, we have more than 3000 people. How can we send them home. I don’t think the President is interested in sending 3000 people home when he himself is interested in creating jobs.
“As employers we’ve taken 3000 plus people off government’s payroll. Haven’t we done well?
We are the biggest contributor to DVLA’s IDG so we can’t accept that we should send 3000 people home,” Bruce Quansah lamented.
He added the all efforts to meet with the Chief Executive of the DVLA had proven futile as the leadership have failed to meet them.
New No. plates: We’ve had to suspend exercise due to our inability to meet the LI amendment – DVLA
