Gyedu Blay Ambolley defends decision to look up GHAMRO offices

Gyedu Blay Ambolley has defended the decision to storm and lock up the offices of the Ghana Music Right Organization (GHAMRO) last Friday, January 23.

Ambolley was in the company of Akosua Agyepong, Ekow Micah, Snoopy Mike Gyemfi, C. K Morrison and some representatives of the Union from Kumasi and Cape Coast.

He said he locked up the offices with the help of his colleagues because, the receiver managers have not been able to deliver on their mandate as directed by the Human Rights Courts.

A Human Rights Courts in Accra in July 2014 asked the then administration led by Carlos Sakyi to step aside on allegations of overstaying their tenure of office and also for, not rendering accounts.

The court subsequently appointed a new interim board made up of Enoch Agyepong (a publisher), Nana Aboagye Dacosta (composer), and (Kwame Nsiah Apau - Okyeame Kwame (performer) to manage the affairs of GHAMRO.

But speaking on The Scoop on Hitz FM, Gyedu Blay Ambolley the term of the interim board expired on January 11, 2015.

He said they have failed to organize elections as directed by the court and there are no documents to prove that the court has granted them an extension.

The elections previously slated for December 6, 2014 could not take place due to a ten-day interlocutory injunction brought by Rex Boateng, George Dickson and others.

Ambolley also said the decision was to allow all individual stakeholders to pick up forms, contest and campaign for any of the vacant positions.

However, Copyright Administrator of the interim board Abraham Adjetey, also known as "Agya Abraham" has stated that the elections are coming off on February 11, 2015.