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“I am inclined to believe the police officer (CID)” says the Editor-in-Chief of the New Crusading Guide newspaper, Kweku Baako Jnr.

He was reacting to fallout of a meeting between the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to discuss for the first time, how to end the canker of vigilantism.

After the meeting, the NDC chastised the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) for disrupting the meeting.

According to them, the CID called the National Chairman of the party, Samuel Ofosu Ampofo on phone to invite him to the police headquarters since new charges have been leveled against him.

However, the CID in an interview with Kwami Sefa-Kayi denied calling Mr. Ofosu Ampofo.

“It is never true we called Ofosu-Ampofo to come . . . we informed his lawyers that we needed him on Monday. So we were expecting them on Monday. I never called any of them; I never talked to anybody. So it’s never true that he was invited in the middle of the meeting. Moreover, I didn’t know about the meeting until his lawyers told me . . . so I accepted for them to come afterwards,” Chief Supt. Appenteng Baffour, Deputy Director of Operations, CID indicated.

Speaking to this during a panel discussion on Wednesday’s edition of ‘Kokrokoo, Kweku Baako asked those in doubt to go for the telephone log.

“He said he made no call to Ofosu-Ampofo while the meeting was ongoing . . . that sounds more credible to me. But if it becomes controversial the telephone logs are there . . . so I think it is a storm in a tea cup; we shouldn’t allow this to distort or undermine the process,” he urged.