London, UK — The District Assemblies Common Fund (DACF) and Wahu Mobility announced this week a national electric-mobility programme to roll out 5,000 smart electric motorcycles across the country — beginning with a pilot of 280 eMotos placed across every one of Ghana’s 261 Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs).
The announcement was made at the Ghana–UK Investment Summit 2026 at Raffles London, where President John Dramani Mahama is headlining more than 800 senior stakeholders under the theme “Restoring Investor Confidence to Unlock Opportunities and Shared Prosperity.”
The pilot operationalises a Memorandum of Understanding executed between the Government and Wahu Mobility — a Ghana-based manufacturer of smart electric two-wheelers — for the national rollout of eMobility at the district level. Financed through the DACF Grant Mobilisation Programme, the 280-unit pilot places at least one eMoto across all 261 Local Government Authorities and 16 Regional Coordinating Councils.
The partners describe the pilot as the beginning of a long-term programme and a model of effective private-sector and government collaboration — the first phase of a long-term strategy to decarbonise Ghana’s districts.
“We are excited for this initiative to scale the adoption of electric mobility nationally — and beyond just delivery. Government is setting the example every institution needs: moving away from petrol and driving real efficiencies in operations. We are proud to be part of it, and to create more jobs for Ghana’s youth at the same time.”— Valerie Labi, Co-Founder & CEO, Wahu Mobility said.
What the vehicles are for
The eMotos exist to solve a long-standing operational bottleneck: districts cannot collect revenue or deliver services they cannot physically reach.
Each vehicle equips a district revenue and service-delivery officer to reach taxpayers and citizens in the field — serving property-rate and business-permit assessments, collecting market tolls, and carrying out sanitation supervision, environmental-health inspections, agricultural extension, social-welfare visits, and disaster response.
By replacing ageing, fuel-dependent motorcycles with telematics-enabled smart eMotos, the pilot directly strengthens internally generated funds (IGF) mobilisation and restores the field mobility on which local government performance depends.
Every vehicle transmits GPS location, distance travelled, energy use and uptime to a real-time dashboard, giving district leadership — for the first time — the ability to tie officer field activity directly to revenue collected and services delivered.
Impact and savings for districts
The pilot is engineered for measurable return. Each district equips a lead revenue officer; even a conservative 5–10% lift in IGF collection from improved field reach scaled across participating districts would return a multiple of the investment within the pilot window.
On top of that, each eMoto is projected to avoid roughly GHS 9,000–12,000 in fuel and maintenance costs per year against a petrol baseline — recurring savings that flow back into district budgets and frontline services.
Each electric motorcycle that replaces a petrol one avoids approximately 1.8 tonnes of CO₂ a year, with monitoring infrastructure built to satisfy Paris Agreement Article 6.2 requirements. This positions Ghana as the first African government to monetise district-level fleet electrification through a compliance-market carbon programme, with revenue designed to flow back to the districts themselves.
The beginning of a long-term programme
This pilot is the first part of a long-term strategy to decarbonise Ghana’s districts, and an example of what great collaboration between the private sector and government can achieve. It is designed to open the door to the stages that follow.
In the next phase, the partners intend to launch a commercial paper instrument that allows independent investors to participate in the scale-up of EV operations across the districts beyond the pilot, broadening the capital base from public pre-financing to private investment.
The long-term plan also envisions rolling out charging infrastructure to every district, anchoring a reliable, nationwide network that supports fleets well beyond the pilot. In parallel, the data generated during the pilot will be leveraged to monetise the carbon avoided, converting verified emissions reductions into a new, long-horizon revenue line that contributes directly to the internally generated funds of participating districts.
Why Wahu Mobility
Wahu operates Ghana’s first completely-knocked-down (CKD) assembly plant for electric two-wheelers, anchoring jobs, technical skills and supply-chain value at home. Its vehicles are field-validated under Ghanaian road, load and climate conditions.
Wahu is the first EV company in Africa — and the second in the world — to secure a landmark Paris Agreement Article 6 deal, a sovereign-grade carbon offtake agreement with Switzerland’s KliK Foundation. The company is led by founder and CEO Valerie Labi, who returned to Ghana to build the plant and co-authored Ghana’s Automotive Development Policy.
“This is not just a fleet of motorcycles — it is the infrastructure of local government, made Ghanaian, electric and intelligent, and it is only the beginning. We are giving every district the means to reach its citizens, grow its own revenue, and own a share of the climate value it creates. Ghana is choosing to electrify first, capture the carbon revenue, and build the industry at home,”— Harry Yamson, Administrator, District Assemblies Common Fund, explained.
A platform to scale
The pilot sits within the DACF Grant Mobilisation Programme — the Fund’s vehicle for introducing new technologies with large-scale impact for Ghana. By giving every district a hands-on stake from day one, it builds the operational evidence base and the political coalition required for the stages that follow. A district that has run an eMoto for six months knows exactly what comes next.
About Wahu Mobility
Wahu Mobility is a Ghana-based electric two-wheeler manufacturer and e-mobility platform headquartered in Accra. Wahu designs and manufactures eBikes and eMotos, finances them through a path-to-ownership model, and operates Ghana’s first electric two-wheeler CKD assembly plant. It is the first EV company in Africa, and the second worldwide, to secure a landmark Article 6 carbon deal.
