The Editor-in-Chief of the New Crusading Guide Newspaper, Abdul Malik Kweku Baako, has appealed to the Police Service to stop the practice where people mobilise at radio stations to attack people for their views. He noted that the trend, which appears to have been consistently ignored by the Police, is endangering the lives of all Ghanaians and must be discouraged. A mob gathered at an Accra-based radio station Top Radio when a New Patriotic Party (NPP) commentator Nana Darkwa accused former president Rawlings of burning down his own house. The crowd’s intention was to lynch the commentator once he came out of the station but the police, in a swift action, picked up Nana Darkwa from the scene and charged him with publishing false information with the intention to cause fear and panic. The police later explained their action was to protect the radio panelist from being attached by the angry loyalists of Mr Rawlings. Another NPP radio commentator made comments to the effect that President Mills looked like a Chimpanzee during the last presidential campaigns. The police in Kumasi arrested Adu Gyamfi, explaining that people had started mobilising at the premises of the radio station to attack the errant commentator or his disparaging comments about the president. But speaking on Metro TV’s Good Morning Ghana programme Thursday, Malik Baako criticized the police for making the mobs feel they are insulated from police action. He said it is incumbent on the police to arrest such crowd in order to promote public peace and order so as to deter those who think they have the mandate to exercise their own form of justice. Malik Baako condemned the irresponsible comments of some radio commentators, pleading with them to sanitise their contributions to discussions especially on air. He maintained that Ghana has moved from the era when speech could be criminalized, appealing to the police to stay away from issues that are purely civil in nature. By: Dorcas Efe Mensah/myjoyonline.com