[ 2015-02-11 ]

Court throws out Ambolley -GHAMRO holds elections today
An Accra High Court yesterday dismissed a case
filed by Gyedu Blay Ambolley and two others to
place an injunction on the Ghana Music Right
Organisation (GHAMRO) elections scheduled for
today.

Ambolley, C.K. Morrison and Ama Afriyie were in
court with their counsel, Lawyer B. Eshun, to seek
for an ex-parte interim injunction to restrain
GHAMRO and its Receiver Managers from conducting
today’s elections.

The complainants cited late submission of polls
and expiration of time as their reasons for the
action but GHAMRO’s lawyer, Opoku Adusei,
opposed the motion and argued that notices of
polls were served as far back as January 7 and
even published in the national dailies.

The court, presided over by His Lordship Justice
Anthony Oppong, dismissed the application to pave
way for the elections.

Tuesday’s development followed an earlier
postponement of the elections from December 6,
2014 to February 11 due to an interlocutory
injunction sought from the court by Rex Boateng
and George Dickson, among others, to allow all
individual stakeholders pick forms, contest and
campaign for the vacant positions.

With this development, all is set for the GHAMRO
elections today. All music right owners are
expected to cast their votes at CIBT-Social
Advance (Adjacent Teachers Hall) in Accra,
Apatakese Ase in Kumasi and the Cultural Centre in
Tamale.

Last year a Human Rights Court setup the interim
board to operate for six months, with the task of
receiving, managing royalties on behalf of the
right owners and seeing to the appointment of a
permanent board for GHAMRO.

As it stands, music maestro Kojo Antwi will be
going unopposed for the chairmanship position of
GHAMRO while the rest vie for the vice chairman
(producer), vice chairman (composer), board member
(producer) and board member (composer) positions.

After the votes are counted and the results
announced, the interim board at GHAMRO will swear
in the elected board on February 27.

Source - Daily Guide

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