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Some stakeholders with interest in the media have expressed utter disappointment at media houses, especially radio stations for their refusal to use �delay dumps� or delay equipment in Ghana to �censor� live interviews. The delay dump is a device attached to the telephone console in the studios of radio stations through which calls from outside are channeled before allowed to go on air. It helps in deliberately delaying broadcast of live material and also used to prevent profanity, violence, or other undesirable material from going on air, including negligible stuff like coughing. According to these stakeholders, had this simple equipment been in place, the brouhaha generated from the comments of embattled Kennedy Agyapong, MP for Assin North, which has led to supporters of the NPP going into a frenzy would have been curtailed. One such stakeholder is a legal luminary, Ace Ankomah, who said on the Citi Breakfast Show that: �You know I�m treading on grounds that journalists would not like, but if they had delayed broadcast equipment on the station when this was said, the host could have taken the person off air but you radio stations have completely refused.� He added: �I understand the American government, in fact, I know that the American government donated some of these equipment to some radio stations, they have refused to use it so you are all part of the problem that we have.� Hon. Agyapong has since been charged with treason and is expected to be arraigned before court on Wednesday.