Man with amunitions arrested at Nigeria ministry

The man apparently made it
past the gate of the Radio
House compound in Nigeria's
capital Abuja, heading toward
where the ministers were
meeting before being stopped.
Footage aired on the state-
run Nigerian Television
Authority showed the man
sitting on the ground next to
a woman's handbag that
contained the rifle rounds and
the grenades.
While police identifed the
cannisters as hand grenades,
at least one had the acronym
"CS" and the word "riot"
written on its side, likely
making it a cannister of tear
gas instead of a bomb.
Another cannister bore similar
markings to it, and the other
appeared to a stun grenade.
As journalists shouted
questions at the man after his
arrest, he said that he had
come from a neighboring state
and was trying to give the
bag to someone else inside
the ongoing ministerial
conference. The conference,
aired live on state television
Monday, continued
uninterrupted.
Police later identified the man
arrested as John Akapapu and
said they had taken him into
custody as they continued an
investigation into the incident.
A statement from federal
police command said officers
recovered 37 rifle rounds and
three grenades after
Akapapu's arrest, but did not
offer any details about why
the man carried the weapons
onto the ministry's grounds.
Nigeria has been under
increasing attack by a radical
Islamist sect known as Boko
Haram, which has been blamed
for more than 520 killings this
year alone, according to an
Associated Press count.
Nigeria's capital also has been
targeted in bombings carried
out by militants from the
country's oil-rich southern
delta.
However, those attacks have
been carried out largely by
car bomb, not by attackers
using military-style hand
grenades.
Source: ajc News