Confirming the news to Accra-based Citi FM, the Chief Executive of the Mental Health Authority, Dr Akwasi Osei said: âCharles Antwi is doing fine but heâs not good to the point where he can be left to go.â
âWe are hoping that in the next one month heâll be fit enough. We will take him back to the court and the court would decide on his fate,â Dr Osei added.
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The 36-year-old was sentenced to 10-years in prison in July 2015 after confessing that he had wanted to kill President Mahama at his church.
Antwi was arrested on July 26, 2015 at the Ringway Gospel Assemblies of God Church, where the President worships.
He was found carrying a locally manufactured pistol with two rounds of ammunition.
When asked by security operatives, he said he had come to the church to kill the President.
However, the president was not present at church when the incident occured.
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Charles Antwi's 10-year jail term was subsequently quashed after the judge in a certiorari order ruled that Antwi, who has been declared mentally unstable after medical examination, should be taken to the Psychiatric Hospital for treatment.