Initial examination proves Charles Antwi is sick – Dr Akwasi Osei

Chief Psychiatrist, Dr Akwasi Osei says initial examination conducted on Charles Antwi, the failed assassin of President John Mahama has established that he is mentally sick.

According to him, Charles Antwi is gradually responding to the treatment being given him at the Accra Psychiatric Hospital.

He was taken to the facility for a thorough examination to establish his mental state after an Accra High Court directed he be sent there.

In an interview with Kasapa News, Dr Akwasi Osei said that inasmuch as his outfit would have loved to detain Charles Antwi, lack of adequate security at the health centre has made that impossible.

“We would have loved to hold him there for further examination; however we don’t have the capacity to keep him. As we all know he’s a security threat and our security at the hospital is not the best, hence he’s been sent to the BNI cells, he’ll be brought to us as and when he has to be treated” Dr Osei noted.

The mentally unstable gunman was on Monday released by an Accra Human Rights Court after he was initially slapped with a 10-year jail term by a magistrate court.

But his release was delayed as the necessary documentation to seal his exit had not been completed.

The judge in a certiorari order ruled the 36-year-old man should be taken to the Psychiatric Hospital for treatment.

Charles Antwi, 36, was arrested when he visited President Mahama’s church – Ringway Gospel Center – with a loaded and cocked pistol, purportedly to kill President.