Mozambique: INATRO has six days to print and deliver 5,000 drivers licenses

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Mozambique: INATRO has six days to print and deliver 5,000 drivers licenses

11:23 CAT | 18 Mar 2025

File photo: O País

More than 5,000 driver’s license applications are held up at the National Road Transport Institute (INATRO) due to delays in the printing system, Minister of Transport and Logistics João Matolbe said today, instructing the institution’s management to distribute the licenses by next Monday.

Minister Matlhombe visited INATRO headquarters in Maputo on Monday to learn more about the functioning of the institution, and discussed the reasons for the delay in issuing licenses with the institution’s managers.

“We have assessed the service provided to citizens, more or less in terms of issuing driver’s licenses, and we urge INATRO to improve the quality of services. Therefore, there is work to be done in the coming days, firstly, so that requests for around 5,000 licenses that we have pending are issued and printed in the next six days; by next week all licenses must be printed and distributed throughout the country,” Matlombe said.

Matlombe therefore decided to replace the current system of printing driver’s and [justice] licenses. “There are also aspects obviously linked to the contract management itself, where there is a lack of systems integration between the issuance of the license and the data collection system itself. Therefore, for this particular matter, we advised Inatro to structure the process and we will work with the Ministry of Communications and Digital Transformation and the Ministry of Justice, so that, within eight months, we can hold a new competition to hire a service provider with an integrated system for printing a digital driver’s license, which also allows the integration of the booklet and property title, to make things easier for citizens, since they would not contact several institutions to register their vehicles,” Matlombe explained.

Also among this wave of changes, the government is already working on revising the Highway Code, to, among other things, reduce road accidents. “At this moment, we do not have infractions that are being recorded by cameras on public roads, but it is in the government’s interest to replace the physical presence of inspection elements with speed control cameras. So, these infractions have to be regulated, and provided for in the judicial code, so that, in the event of an appeal by the offender, there is a legal basis for the law to be applied. Let’s see how we can improve the quality of services,” said the minister. The governor urged INATRO to reinforce awareness and monitoring to improve road safety.

Source: O País