ACCRA, Jan 11 (Reuters) - Ghanaian police have
arrested five men and seized a soft-drinks distribution truck
loaded with guns and ammunition believed to be heading to
Nigeria, a police spokesman said on Wednesday.

Nigeria, Africa's top crude producer, is facing
unprecedented civil unrest as sectarian violence and a
nationwide protest against the removal of state fuel subsidies
threaten the government of President Goodluck Jonathan.

Deputy Police Superintendant Cephas Arthur said police found
double-barreled shotguns and boxes of ammunition beneath a false
metal plate floor in the truck, which was searched in an Accra
suburb on Tuesday after police received a tip-off.

He did not say how many guns were found.

Two of the arrested suspects were Nigerian nationals and the
three others were Ghanaian, he said, adding the police believed
the cargo was on its way to Nigeria.

(Reporting by Clair MacDougall; Writing by Bate Felix; Editing
by Richard Valdmanis)