Elsewhere in this issue, there is a story about rising tension in the Zango community in Kumasi.
Knowing the size of the Kumasi Zongo community, arguably the largest in Ghana, the need for police intelligence to delve into the matter cannot be overlooked.
Since the demise of the Sarkin Zango of the Ashanti Region, Sultan Umar Faruk and the subsequent search for a successor, the subject has become thorny.
Social media negativities are in full flight as the youth especially turn to it to trade invectives and to attack the integrity of elders and even clerics with large following.
One of such posts was directed at a respectable cleric in the Ashanti regional capital, and with his supporters responding, the outcome has been broken tables and chairs.
The isolated cases of confrontations could result in a flare-up which of course would not be in the interest of national security.
The Peace and Reconciliation Committee of the Ashanti Regional Chief Imam at their press conference have called for a truce.
While we endorse the call, we would also ask the local radio stations whose role in the situation has been subtly alluded to be circumspect in the manner they handle outbursts from the various interest groups.
Radio, when not responsibly managed, can have negative consequences on national security.
The place of Kumasi in the security architecture of the country is enormous.
It is for this reason that there should be no room for such incidents, the sum of which would not inure to the peace of not only Kumasi but the country as a whole.
Here is therefore calling on the intelligence community in Kumasi especially to survey the contents of radio broadcasts in Hausa, some of which are part of fueling the tension persisting in Kumasi.
The intelligence community can work with the Peace and Reconciliation Committee of the Office of the Regional Chief Imam to obtain a handle on the subject.
It would seem that for now the intelligence community is dealing with other subjects but the brewing trouble in the Zango community in Kumasi. When the tension reaches its zenith, the repercussions would be anything but good for national security.
Social media is spreading venom like wildfire in the Zango communities, and being the most preferred channel for hate speeches and remarks, it would appear that we have not seen the end of the nonsense yet.
We are pointing it out for the umpteenth time that social media in our communities require a lot of discipline because of the propensity of the novelty to create social and security havoc as being noticed in the Zango community in Kumasi and by extension elsewhere.
The good and the bad faces of social media could not have been better showcased.