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Ghanaian Man Jailed For Plotting To Kill President Mahama

A Ghanaian court sentenced a man to 10 years in prison on Tuesday after he confessed to attempting to kill President John Dramani Mahama. On Sunday, 36-year-old Charles Antwi was arrested in possession of a pistol at a church that President Mahama usually attends with his family.

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A Ghanaian court sentenced a man to 10 years in prison on Tuesday after he confessed to attempting to kill President John Dramani Mahama. On Sunday, 36-year-old Charles Antwi was arrested in possession of a pistol at a church that President Mahama usually attends with his family.

The President was not at the church when the incident occurred, according an official statement said.

"I wanted to kill President Mahama to take over his position," Antwi told the court in the capital Accra.

"Trying to kill the president was a way of fighting for the nation. I was to be sworn in as president when president John Evans Atta Mills died," he told the court.

Antwi's explanation was odd to observers because he not a known entity in national politics. His story of how he located the church was also very peculiar.

"A military personnel at the (presidential) Osu Castle directed me to the President's church at Ringway," he also told the court session. He did not reveal the name of the military official.

Antwi told the court that the gun was given to him by a citizen of Burkina Faso he also could not identify.

The man was arrested after his suspicious behavior during the Ringway Branch of Assemblies of God church's morning service, a government spokesman, Edward Omane Boamah, said in an official statement. The judge sentenced Antwi to the maximum term allowed by the law for illegal possession of weapons.

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