{"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\/2015\/07\/my-son-wanted-to-overthrow-gaddafi-gunmans-mother\/","title":{"rendered":"My son wanted to overthrow Gaddafi \u2013 Gunman\u2019s mother"},"content":{"rendered":"
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
\u201cCharles told us that he tried to become Libyan President but he couldn’t overthrow Gaddafi so he came back to Ghana,\u201d Madam Agyapongmaa added.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”qwzg5mrwFci8uUKO52IOefs9UAj8hH33″]Speaking in an interview on the 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 \u201cI 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,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n She lamented that “when I heard that my son had been arrested, I was sad and very worried.”<\/p>\n The convicted gunman, Charles Antwi was on Tuesday sentenced to 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 He admitted in court that his intention was to kill President Mahama<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n Charles Antwi had told the court presided over by Justice Francis Obiri that becoming President is his birth right.<\/p>\n