Report says 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.
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.
Local police spokesman Jimoh Moshood declined to immediately comment. A federal police spokesman did not answer a call for comment.
John Akpabu, the would-be suicide bomber of ministerial briefing , arrested with 386 granade, and other explosives at the the National Press Centre, Radio House in Abuja today.
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Culled:Saharareporters/247nigerianewsupdate
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