The Executive Director of the Sierra Leone Road Safety Authority (SLRSA), Mr Ibrahim Sannoh on Monday August 10, 2020, launched the Electronics Registration (e-Fitness) at the authority’s headquarters in Freetown.
The move, according to the Executive Director, is in line with President Julius Maada Bio’s ambition to transform the country through e-governance (Electronic Governance) to match up with other advanced countries across the globe.
Since his appointment, the Executive Director has envisioned the digitalization of the authority to make it more transparent and accountable. He used the occasion to appeal to all vehicles and mobility owners to register through the new facility, electronics fitness, as the authority will start using a digital handset, which will be specifically used by the Road Safety Corps (RSC) to ensure that vehicles are registered in an organized, well-structured system.
The Executive Director told his audience that he has been working with his Board and management to bring tangible reforms that will stand the test of time.
“This facility is not only accurate but it avoids unnecessary delay,” Mr. Sannoh said, adding that the e-Fitness will help ascertain whether a vehicle is road worthy or not, and it will also help address the fraught process of paper-based-fitness checklists for both the vehicle examiners and our esteemed customers.”
He also spoke about the launch of the electronics automated life card. A new technology, he said, will help in keeping the customers’ life cards durable as long as the vehicle is road worthy. He said that the new Vehicle Cards are pre-printed with securitized ‘QR Code’ and other features that are not visible with the eye.
Daniel C. Kaitibie, the authority’s Transport Manager, said the e-Fitness test for vehicles materialized at a time when the authority had re-categorized all vehicles. He explained that the re-categorization of vehicles licenses will ease the taxation process for vehicles.
He disclosed that all vehicle examiners have been provided with IPads, stating further that the system is programmed in such a way that every vehicle that passes fitness will be traced to the Vehicle Examiner. This process, he continued, will help the authority to easily detect vehicles that are not road worthy.
Exhibiting the new technology, the Management Information System Analyst, Glen Cole, said digitalizing the operations of the SLRSA is his utmost priority. He assured that the new e-Fitness is efficient and accurate, and that it is only accessible within the SLRSA network making it more secured and safe.
“With supports from the management of the SLRSA, the MIS team is poised to transforming the SLRSA from a paper based institution to a digitalized authority whose services can efficiently be accessible from online and everywhere in the country,” Glen Cole said.
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