We Won’t Disclose The Identity Of Board Members For Safety Reasons- PRO Of VGMA

The Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the Vodafone Ghana Music Awards (VGMA), Robert Klah, has made it known that the identities of the board members in charge of selecting nominees and winners for the awards scheme will never be made public.

According to him, the decision was made to protect the safety of the board members as it has received several threats in the past, as well as being subjected to online harassment which has led to concerns about their safety.

This has compelled the scheme to keep the identities of the board members confidential to avoid any possible harm.

Robert, who was speaking in an interview with Caleb Nii Boye on 3FM asserted that, “the thing is this; we’ve had some board members who’ve had threats before, so the best thing is not to share information about these people.”

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Using the Grammy Awards as reference, Robert, who is also an event organizer opined that the over 11,000 decision makers who comprise members of the Recording Academy are relatively unknown.

“There are 11,000 plus people responsible for the Grammys, and I don’t know if you know all of them and I don’t know if anybody is responsible for knowing all of them,” he explained.

Robert Klah noted that the board members are a diverse group of individuals with various backgrounds and expertise in the music industry, and they take their responsibilities very seriously.

He concluded that the award scheme remains committed to promoting and celebrating excellence in the music industry and will continue to ensure that the awards process is fair and transparent.

“At the end of the day, you need to trust the system, the VGMA has been running for X number of years and as a human institution you’ll certain have flaws and that’s fine but if it’s working and you know that majority of what we’ve been doing then I think that we should be able to trust the system,” he hammered.