Accountability will be my hallmark - GHAMRO Chair, Kojo Antwi

Newly sworn in Chairman of the Ghana Music
Rights Organisation (GHAMRO), Kojo Antwi has
promised to be transparent and accountable to all
members of the music rights body.
The musician, together with eight other board
members, was sworn into office as the new
Chairman after he contested the position unopposed
in Wednesday’s GHAMRO elections.
About 3,700 members of GHAMRO cast their votes
in Accra, Kumasi and Tamale to elect new board
members for the music rights body. Wednesday’s
elections were the first in GHAMRO's 25-year
history.
Kojo Antwi, who was a member of the GHAMRO
board that was dissolved by the Human Rights
Courts in July 2014, speaking in an interview with
Myjoyonline.com said accountability will be his
hallmark.
According to him, unlike Carlos Sakyi, “who served
as the referee and the player,” he will be
transparent. He promised to put in place measures
to help musicians get full rewards for their works.
The Carlos Sakyi-led GHAMRO board has been
asked to account for more than GH?1 million said to
have been misappropriated.
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Asked about the alleged misappropriation of funds,
Kojo Antwi said the former board members
responsible for managing funds have to account for
every penny they used during their tenure. “They
need to account [for the money]; this is
stakeholders’ money. The money belonged to all of
us.”
“I think they are being asked to come and give
accounts of their services … whatever we have to
do” to get them to account for the funds must be
done “because if I don’t live up to the oath [of
office], I have to be prosecuted so I expect them to
[do same],” he noted.
The music maestro lamented that the revelation by
the interim audit report “saddens me…It was a
disappointment” because that board was blessed
with some of the best hands in the music industry
“but [they] failed.”
Kojo Antwi revealed that he will organize a house
cleaning exercise and re-register members of the
organization.