Gyedu Blay Ambolley's beef with MUSIGA, Obour et al.

Gyedu Blay Ambolley in a latest interview with
yfmghana.com has revealed the current MUSIGA
administration hasn’t done anything good as far as
he is concerned.
Still promoting his Different Shades of Ambolley
album, he said;
“Looking at it from behind, I’m not seeing the
positive aspects of it. But luckily for them, the
government gave them about two million. With that
kind of money, a lot could have been done for the
industry. I’ve seen many musicians that have
contributed a lot to Ghana but when they passed
away and I went to their funerals, it was pathetic.
“That means something is wrong. Because as it
stands now, when you have two children and you
ask them to choose between football and music,
they all will choose football because they see the
footballers earn good money. I think the only reason
why they will choose music is because of what
Sarkodie and the rest are doing and winning BET
and stuff.
“Because much is not done to expose what the
music can give us as a people. But the problem now
is that when I talk, people see it as though because
I lost the election, that’s why I’m saying it but in
reality, nothing is happening.
“Citizen Kofi and many others gave contributions
and you still go to the union office and it’s still the
same old thing.
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They could have invested the money into a studio
and instruments musicians can go get and record.
In Los Angeles, when I was with the musicians
union, they had a studio and we the members got
huge discounts. Outside studios were charging 100
- 280 dollars per session, that studio was about 20
dollars for us. It helped people to do more and good
music.
“Sometimes I just keep mute because people say I
talk because I lost.
“But I have plans of contesting again and I have
been having many calls regarding the leadership
and music is and not a child’s play.
“But there’s something in there that we need to
correct because there’s mafiarism. Obuor can’t
stand toe to toe with me musically. When Agya Koo
Nimo was the president I was the vice so I know
what was going on. So people are afraid I will
expose the corruption going on in there, they don’t
want me to be near to it.
“So many things are wrong. Okyeame Kwame is
not a member of COSGA so he cannot be part of the
receivers and managers, they put somebody there
who has a criminal record to be the chairman.
MUSIGHA is trying to interfere in GHAMBRO but
those two bodies are two different things.
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