Mr. Rex Owusu Marfo (Rex Omar) and Francis Omari Adofo have been elected as Chairman and Vice respectively for the The Ghana Music Rights Organisation (GHAMRO).
The organisation saw its previous Board members relieved of their duties at the end of their four-year tenure of office.
However, an electoral committee, which was put together during a general meeting in October 2020 failed to organise elections on time. This created a vacuum in succession and resulted in the need for that electoral committee to be dissolved.
Consequently, the Directors drew on Section 4.7 of the GHAMRO Constitution and appointed a five members Election Committee made up of Augustina Addison (Chairperson), Eric Afriyie, Haruna Sungumo Abdul-Aziz, Seth Kwaku Amponsah and Kwabena Donkor Jethro on Monday April 26th, 2021 in order to provide a Board for the Society on or by the 20th of May 2022.
Legal turmoil ensued during this period. An interlocutory injunction was filed against the outfit to restrain them from conducting Board elections on February 9th 2022. The lawyers of both sides were engaged in a lengthy and cumbersome back and forth tussle of motions until finally, the court dismissed the case in favour of GHAMRO, enabling them hold elections for their society.
On the 15th of May, 2022, the stage was set for the commencement of elections. There were ten centres in operation on that day: Members in Brong Ahafo, Ashanti, Central, Volta and Northern Regions voted at the Centre for National Culture in their respective capitals. Voters in Accra cast their ballots at CIBT, those in Western Region at Melody Hotel – Takoradi, those in Oti at Good Morning Hotel – Kpasa, those in Upper East at Asongetaaba – Bolgatanga and those in Upper West at Royal Lodge Hotel – Wa.
Voting was conducted by the Electoral Commission of Ghana with the supervision of the Ghamro’s Election Committee.
Source: Fiifi Adinkra
