3,700 vote in GHAMRO elections amidst tight security

About 3,700 members of the Ghana Music Rights
Organization (GHAMRO) are voting Wednesday to
elect new board members for the music rights body.
Registered members of the organization are
converging in Accra, Kumasi and Tamale to elect
persons who will steer GHAMRO from its troubled
waters.
GHAMRO has for more than a year now been
bedeviled by a series of controversies forcing the
Human Rights Court in July 2014 to order the board
led by Carlos Sakyi to step aside.
In all, 18 persons are vying for various positions in
GHAMRO including Chairman, Deputy Chairman,
and Board Members. Highlife great, Kojo Antwi is
vying for the Chairmanship position.
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He is unopposed.
Some of the well-known figures at the elections
include Musicians Union of Ghana (MUSIGA)
president Bice Osei Kuffour (Obour), Ben Brako,
Diana Hopeson, Randy Noonoo, and Nana Kwaku
Duah (Tic Tac).
Interim Administrator of the GHMARO board,
Abraham Nuetey Adjatey (Agya Abraham) has told
Myjoyonline.com that elections, which is currently
underway at the Catholic Institute of Business and
Technology (CIBT) will close by 3pm.
They hope to hand over to a newly elected board
member soon after the elections.
There is currently a heavy police and military
presence at the venue of the elections which is
being conducted by the Electoral Commission (EC