The decision was reached after GIBA failed to show up at an event to sign a Memorandum of Understanding regarding how they should pay music royalties.

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GHAMRO officials said GIBA is showing “bad faith” after its officials failed to show up for the event and offered no explanation for not showing up.

But according to the Vice President of the GHAMRO, Ahmed Banda, many of them have defaulted payment, adding that GHAMRO “took a number of them to court and we won and they paid hugely for it. Many more are still in court when GIBA approached GHAMRO and requested for an out of court negotiation on behalf of the radio and television stations who are members of GIBA.

“GHAMRO showed GIBA the due respect and we started talks and negotiations for close to three months until GIBA itself came to us with a MoU which would solve the challenge of radio and television stations which fail to pay the due music royalties.

"We went through the terms of the MoU and both parties agreed it would be mutually beneficial. We agreed on a date to sign and GIBA came to us with a full team made up of its leaders and lawyers.

"Just when we were about o sign, GIBA suggested the date should be postponed to Thursday November 17 so we invite the media and make it a subject of news. We agreed to the suggestion.”

“Here we are today, Thursday, November 17 the invited media houses are here, GHAMRO is here with its leadership and team of lawyers but GIBA is nowhere to be found, we have waited for several hours they have not showed up, they are not picking their calls, and they have just ignored us completely in a very disrespectful way” he added.

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Lawyer for GHAMRO, Dr Poku Adusei, threatened to go back to court with radio and television station that have defaulted in the payment of the music royalty.

He said: “We have no choice than to return to court with radio and television stations who have defaulted in the payment of music royalty and this time the courts would even make them pay more because they would pay the legal cost, cost of defaulting because it is an infringement and also pay the arrears all because GIBA does not want the easy way out.”