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Reports reaching Peacefmonline.com say Nana Darkwa, the NPP sympathizer who was remanded into prison custody for two weeks, has been granted bail this morning by an Accra High Court. His counsel, Kwame Akufo, confirmed this to peacefmonline a short while ago. He was offered bail in the sum GH� 400. Lawyer Akufo said the necessary paperwork is being done to release his client from the Nsawam prison. The release follows the Minority's decision to boycott proceedings on the floor of Parliament in solidarity with Nana Darkwa. Nana Darkwa was rounded up by security operatives drawn from the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI), for alleged comments on Top Radio, an Accra based Radio station�s Breakfast Show, that the Rawlingses, may have deliberately set their own Ridge residence on fire. Nana Darkwa was charged with�publishing information with the intention to cause fear or harm to the public or to disturb the public peace�, under Section 208 of the Criminal code of 1960. He was put before a Cocoa Affairs Court in Accra, with His Lordship Justice C. A. Wilson, presiding over proceedings.