705 Three media associations have called on the government to restructure the Ministry of National Security, re-orient operatives of the institution, and to institute professional recruitment policies to ensure it recruits the right calibre of persons. The associations are the Ghana Independent Broadcasters Association (GIBA), Private Newspaper Printers Association of Ghana (PRINPAG) and the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA). A statement signed by the leaderships of the respective associations said: “It is the view of the leadership of the three media groups that the handlers of Ghana's National Security institute measures to weed out of the security agencies, undesired elements with barbaric and brutish tendencies, whose conduct always creates needless tension between poor civilians and the operatives of Ghana's National Security.