Charles Antwi receiving psychiatric treatment while in BNI custody

Charles Antwi, the mentally challenged man who carried a gun to the President’s church, is still under the custody of the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI), while he undergoes treatment at the Accra Psychiatric Hospital.

That is in view of the fact that he remains mentally unstable and still targets killing the President.

The move is also to forestall any attempt by Antwi to escape from the hospital since he has a record of having escaped a number of times from a mental treatment facility in the Brong Ahafo Region.

His lawyer, Mr Francis Xavier Sosu, who confirmed this to the Daily Graphic, said the arrangement was reached between the Ghana Mental Health Authority and the BNI following repeated statements from Antwi regarding his intention to kill the President and assume the seat of the presidency.

Mr Sosu said during medical interrogations at the hospital, Antwi indicated his repeated obsession to kill the President and to become president i