[ 2015-07-29 ]

My son wanted to overthrow Gaddafi – Gunman’s mother
Madam Afia Agyapongmaa, mother of the convicted
gunman who had planned to assassinate President
John Mahama has disclosed that her son wanted to
overthrow Libya’s revolutionary President,
Muammar Gaddafi. “Charles told us that he tried
to become Libyan President but he couldn’t
overthrow Gaddafi so he came back to Ghana,”
Madam Agyapongmaa added.

Speaking in an interview on the Citi Breakfast
Show on Wednesday, Madam Afia Agyapongmaa pleaded
for his son to be pardoned saying “he was not
mentally stable, not one bit.” “I want to
appeal to the public to help me ask the President
for a pardon and treat his mental problem because
I don’t have much,” she added. She lamented
that “when I heard that my son had been
arrested, I was sad and very worried.” The
convicted gunman, Charles Antwi was on Tuesday
sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for unlawful
possession of firearm after he visited the Ringway
Assemblies of God church with a pistol in his
under pant. He admitted in court that his
intention was to kill President Mahama.

Charles Antwi had told the court presided over by
Justice Francis Obiri that becoming President is
his birth right.

He said he was destined to “be sworn in as
President when President John Evans Atta Mills
died.” The gunman further insisted that
“trying to kill the president was a way of
fighting for the nation.”

Source - Citifmonline

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