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.
[contextly_sidebar id=”qwzg5mrwFci8uUKO52IOefs9UAj8hH33″]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.”
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By: Godwin A. Allotey/citifmonline.com/Ghana