“PRISK no longer serve the best interest of Kenyan musicians” Nonini resigns as board chairman

Nonini served as the board chairman of Performers Rights Society of Kenya (PRISK) until August 8th when he resigned following internal wrangles.

PRISK is licensed by the Kenya Copyright Board to represent performers in musical and dramatic works. Its mandate include collection and distribution of royalties.

Nonini however claims internal politics has crippled PRISK, he says the organization no longer serves the best interest of Kenyan musicians.

“This letter serves as my official resignation as chairman of PRISK effective 8th August 2018. It is my opinion that the PRISK board and by extension KAMP board no longer serve the best interests of Kenyan music artists and i cannot continue serving the PRISK board as Chairman, on a boad where politics of not collecting royalty in line with KECOBO directives is more important than the future of the Kenyan music industry collecting royalty jointly,” Nonini wrote in part in his resignation letter.

Illegal activity

Nonini explains that he decided to quit from his position as the board chairman after his efforts to compel PRISK to follow the law hit a snag.

The Genge rapper says PRISK has been excluding other mandated bodies in collecting royalties jointly as stipulated in the law. He says he can’t be part of a mafia system.

“I reported to the board of directors that over this past weekend the KAMP/PRISK licensing team had invoinced a client’s event manually and against the policy that is in place to joint collection. What was disturbing is that the invoince was not a joint MPAKE/KAMP/PRISK invoice but a KAMP/PRISK invoice only. This is illegal trend of KAMP/PRISK collections excluding MPAKE has been going on for some time despite objections I have raised,” wrote Nonini.