A Legal Practitioner, Francis Sosu \u00a0says he will file an application\u00a0to quash the sentence of Charles Antwi, the gunman who was jailed after confessing that he wanted to kill President Mahama.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are going to the Human Rights Court for an order or certiorari to quash the ruling,\u201d the lawyer said.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”QP8oZRKogzE8IgOMLm0W7xyIiljDqby9″]Charles Antwi has been sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for entering the church [Assemblies of God] of the President, John Dramani Mahama with a gun.<\/p>\n
He confessed last Thursday that he had wanted to assassinate<\/strong> <\/span><\/a>the President.<\/p>\n Speaking on Citi FM\u2019s News Analysis Programme, The Big Issue<\/strong>, Mr. Sosu said the ruling must be \u201cquashed and it is likely that we will do this next week.\u201d<\/p>\n He revealed that he had requested for \u201csome documentations and medical proof from the family to challenge the ruling.\u201d<\/p>\n Mr. Sosu is not the only person pushing for a review of the ruling on Antwi case.<\/p>\n A private legal practitioner, Godwin Adjei-Gyamfi has done same, \u00a0petitioning the Amnesty International to investigate the case.<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Media created assassination<\/strong><\/p>\n Mr. Sosu described the case as a \u201cmedia created assassination attempt on the Presidency.\u201d<\/p>\n This, he said, was because the media was \u201cso sensational\u201d with the issue and \u201cblew it out of proportion\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cInfact there were several media house between Sunday and Monday that alleged that there was an attempted assassination on the President and that is why I think that his confession fed into that misguided concept.<\/p>\n \u201cIn my view what happened in court only fed into that assumption. Obviously if anyone wants to kill the President that will not be a small news. It is easier for people to fall within any trap by set of facts or assumptions.\u201d<\/p>\n I\u2019m disappointed in CHRAJ<\/strong><\/p>\n Mr. Sosu was also displeased with what he described as the Commission on Human Rights and Admisntrative Justice\u2019s (CHRAJ) nonchalant attitude towards the case.<\/p>\n \u201cI am quite disappointed in CHRAJ in several ways. Infact it is not only this case. There have been several human right issues that have come out recently that I believe and I feel CHRAJ should be seen as playing lead roles in those issues.\u201d<\/p>\n According to him, CHRAJ has never associated itself with projects relating to human rights violations.<\/p>\n \u201cCHJRAJ should be seen as playing lead roles. We do a lot of cases with human right violations. We have had collaboration from human rights advocacy centre \u00a0but we have never had CHRAJ associate themselves with any so it seems they do not exist and this is a constitutional body that must track<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Marian Efe Ansah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana
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