{"id":138465,"date":"2015-07-29T06:00:09","date_gmt":"2015-07-29T06:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=138465"},"modified":"2015-07-29T06:53:17","modified_gmt":"2015-07-29T06:53:17","slug":"gunman-was-not-crazy-judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=138465","title":{"rendered":"Gunman was not crazy &#8211; Judge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The judge who presided over the case in which the man who was arrested for the illegal possession of a firearm\u00a0at the Ringway Assemblies of God church\u00a0has dismissed\u00a0questions over the mental capacity of the accused.<\/p>\n<p>Charles Antwi, confessed in court on Tuesday that he went to the church on Sunday with the intention of killing President Mahama.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;PKgkLwTrHhEmNGn7hhDKOQTZ3BO1QyvB&#8221;]He told an amazed courtroom that he believed killing the President would enable him to take over his position.<\/p>\n<p>The prosecution initially called the gunman&#8217;s sanity into question following his claims, suggesting that he be taken to a mental institution.<\/p>\n<p>However, Justice Francis Obiri\u00a0rejected this, stating that Mr. Antwi&#8217;s demeanor and confidence while making his claims showed that he was sane.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-138469\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/thumb_IMG_3344_1024.jpg\" alt=\"thumb_IMG_3344_1024\" width=\"621\" height=\"485\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/thumb_IMG_3344_1024.jpg 621w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/thumb_IMG_3344_1024-300x234.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 621px) 100vw, 621px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Charles Antwi insisted that trying to kill the president was a way of fighting for the nation and explained that the nation\u2019s current electoral system is not helping to improve democracy.<\/p>\n<p>He\u00a0has since been sentenced to 10 years in prison for the unlawful possession of the firearm.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Edwin Kwakofi\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<br \/>\n<a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EdKwakofi\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @EdKwakofi<\/a><br \/>\n<script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The judge who presided over the case in which the man who was arrested for the illegal possession of a firearm\u00a0at the Ringway Assemblies of God church\u00a0has dismissed\u00a0questions over the mental capacity of the accused. Charles Antwi, confessed in court on Tuesday that he went to the church on Sunday with the intention of killing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":138472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[43,38],"class_list":["post-138465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=138465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/138472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}