High Court throws out Ambolley; s case to stop GHAMRO elections

An Accra High Court on Tuesday dismissed an
application brought by Highlife musician Gyedu Blay
Ambolley and others seeking an injunction on the
upcoming Ghana Music Rights Organization
(GHAMRO) elections.
The court said there was no justification for the
injunction and that the plaintiffs did not demonstrate
sufficiently, how they will suffer any personal loss if
the elections were to proceed.
GHAMRO is expected to hold elections on
Wednesday, February 11 to elect new board
members to man the affairs of the music rights
body.
Gyedu Blay Ambolley, C.K. Morrison and Ama
Afriyie went to court in a last minute attempt to halt
the elections which are due to take place in Accra,
Kumasi and Tamale Wednesday.
The three argued that the current GHAMRO Board
which is organizing the elections has no locus to do
so because its mandate has elapsed and that
sufficient notice was not given for the elections.
Justice Antony Oppong, the judge hearing the case,
however rejected their argument and ordered the
elections to proceed as planned.
He said the plaintiffs’ suit was without merit.
Claims by the plaintiffs that their names had been
taken out of the GHAMRO register was disproved in
court.
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Interim Administrator of the GHMARO board,
Abraham Nuetey Adjatey (Agya Abraham), who was
at High Court 10 for the hearing, told
Myjoyonline.com that, “they brought a suit against
GHAMRO and the Receiver Managers to injunct the
process of the elections. The elections which is
supposed to put a substantive board in place.”
“I am on authority [stating] that the elections will
come on and there is nothing to stop this
elections,” he stressed.
The plaintiffs had earlier gone to Court 12 to try to
seek an injunction on the elections which was
thrown out.
In late January, the Police arrested Ekow Micah,
Gyedu Blay Ambolley, C.K. Morrison, Ama Afriyie
and Akosua Agyapong after they illegally locked up
the offices of GHAMRO on January 23.
The police instructed them to open the office and
advised them to result to the courts if they have any
grievances against GHAMRO.
GHAMRO has for more than a year been bedeviled
with series of controversies forcing the Human
Rights in July 2014 to order the board led by Carlos
Sakyi to step aside.