{"id":138780,"date":"2015-07-29T09:27:38","date_gmt":"2015-07-29T09:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=138780"},"modified":"2015-07-29T09:45:05","modified_gmt":"2015-07-29T09:45:05","slug":"my-son-wanted-to-overthrow-gaddafi-gunmans-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=138780","title":{"rendered":"My son wanted to overthrow Gaddafi \u2013 Gunman\u2019s mother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">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\u2019s revolutionary President, Muammar Gaddafi.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cCharles told us that he tried to become Libyan President but he couldn&#8217;t overthrow Gaddafi so he came back to Ghana,\u201d Madam Agyapongmaa added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;qwzg5mrwFci8uUKO52IOefs9UAj8hH33&#8243;]Speaking in an interview on the <strong>Citi Breakfast Show<\/strong> on Wednesday, Madam Afia Agyapongmaa pleaded for his son to be pardoned saying \u201che was not mentally stable, not one bit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI want to appeal to the public to help me ask the President for a pardon and treat his mental problem because I don&#8217;t have much,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She lamented that &#8220;when I heard that my son had been arrested, I was sad and very worried.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The convicted gunman, Charles Antwi was on Tuesday sentenced to <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/07\/28\/gunman-in-mahamas-church-jailed-10-years\/\" target=\"_blank\">10 years imprisonment<\/a><\/strong><\/span> for unlawful possession of firearm after he visited the Ringway Assemblies of God church with a pistol in his under pant.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He admitted in court that his intention was <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/07\/28\/i-wanted-to-kill-mahama-gunman-confesses\/\" target=\"_blank\">to kill President Mahama<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Charles Antwi had told the court presided over by Justice Francis Obiri that becoming President is his birth right.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_138794\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-138794\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/gaddafi-3_1780857b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-138794\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/gaddafi-3_1780857b.jpg\" alt=\"Muammar Gaddafi\" width=\"620\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/gaddafi-3_1780857b.jpg 620w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/gaddafi-3_1780857b-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-138794\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Muammar Gaddafi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said he was destined to \u201cbe sworn in as President when President John Evans Atta Mills died.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The gunman further insisted that \u201ctrying to kill the president was a way of fighting for the nation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Godwin A. 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