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New Patriotic Party�s (NPP) dreaded �Coffee Shop Mafia� journalists led by their ceremonial leader and editor-in-chief of the New Crusading Guide newspaper, Mr. Abdul Malik Kweku Baako, are overjoyed by Mr. Martin Amidu�s reference to the press friendly to the National Democratic Congress (NDC) as �rented� and �criminal�. The New Patriotic Party (NPP) sponsored press is lauding the obviously confused state of mind exhibited by the sacked Attorney General in his slanderous claim against that section of the Ghanaian press. In what appears to be a desperate equalization effort, the NPP coffee shop journalists who have been heavily accused of conniving with the NPP in the media, especially under the Kufuor regime, to carry out vindictive actions against their political opponents, have been on cloud nine since Mr. Amidu went public with his illogical pronouncement against the media that helped him to become the second Minister of justice & Attorney General in the Mills-led National Democratic Congress (NDC) government but took issue with his failure to prove his merit as a good replacement for his predecessor, madam Betty Mould Iddrisu. A gleeful banner headline of a New Crusading Guide publication last Wednesday drew the attention of the public to a press statement issued by the sacked A-G to claims by him that he was daring the so-called �rented press� to report him to the police for purported wrongs he may have committed rather than maligning him in the media. Pontificating his self-righteousness, in his latest in a series of press releases, Martin Amidu who was sacked by the President for insubordination, and has since turned himself into, what he called, a citizen vigilante, said he has nothing to hide. What The Catalyst finds interesting however about Mr. Amidu is new claims that allegations are being made against him without proof. This Catalyst newspaper does not want to believe that Martin Amidu, as Attorney General, was dreaming when he made the baseless allegation against some newspapers friendly to the NDC government in one of his articles, calling them a �criminal� and �rented press.� It is as a result of Martin Amidu�s wild allegations against that section of the Ghanaian press that the notorious coffee shop mafia led by Mr. Kwaku Baako of the Crusading Guide newspaper, which is noted for its unflinching support for the NPP, has decided to seek equalization but that effort has crushed at the point of take-off. In the paper�s estimation, Mr. Martin Amidu, once he has decided to call for equity, must first come with clean hands, and stop being a crying baby.