The Executive Director of the Sierra Leone Road Safety Authority (SLRSA), Ibrahim Sannoh, has told Awoko that the digitalisation of the authority for effective service delivery is his ambition. He made this assertion after the launch of the Electronics Registration (e-Fitness) at the authority’s headquarters at Kissy road in Freetown on Monday 10th August 2020. 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 digitalisation 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’s 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 organised, 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: “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 check lists for both the Vehicle Examiners and our esteemed customers.”
Another landmark launch he spoke about was 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. The new Vehicle Cards he reiterated are pre-printed with securitised ‘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 materialised at a time when the authority had re-categorised all vehicles. He explained that the re-categorisation 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 digitalising 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 secure and safe.
“With support from the management of the SLRSA, the MIS team is poised to transforming the SLRSA from a paper based institution to a digitalised authority whose services can efficiently be accessible from online and everywhere in the country,” Glen Cole said. AK/12/08/2020