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The Editor-In-Chief of the New Crusading Guide newspaper, Abdul Malik Kweku Baaku has appealed to President Mills to intervene by calling some of his ministers to order especially those who move from one media house to the order hailing insults on their political opponents. He said it has become necessary following Kobby Acheampong�s allegation that he was insulted by a Police officer. According to him, the Deputy Minister of Interior has a track record of insults. �Today, he goes here to insult and tomorrow, he is at another place insulting�, he added. Speaking on Metro TV�s �Good Morning Ghana� programme, Kweku Baaku noted that there was some inappropriateness in the report submitted by the Deputy Minister and questioned the expertise of the Minister in determining where road check point should be erected. The Minister said he was called a �stupid man� by a police man who, together with others were conducting an operation on the Accra-Cape Coast road to punish road traffic offenders and was stopped for speeding. According to him, �the police had mounted the traffic stop right in the valley and the other side is also a hill. So when I got there I stopped; in fact they stopped me because I overtook the car that was in front of me. And they stopped me. So I stopped and I said why are you guys doing this speed check in this valley?� He added �I told them to move to a flat stretch of the road where they can see you so that even if you have to break it�s a flat stretch and it would not inconvenience anybody. All the response he did was to tell me that I was a stupid man to tell him that so I pulled up and called the IGP�. The officers were subsequently arrested and sent to the Police Headquarters in Accra and released with one Lance Corporal Henry Addison interdicted while investigations are ongoing. Kweku Baaku said this is not good for the government as the Police hierarchy seem to believe in only the side of the story given by the Deputy Minister.