Doctor, Lawyer Arrested By Nigerian Military over Links with Boko Haram

Nigerian military authorities have apprehended a medical doctor and a lawyer over allegations that they have links with the Boko Haram terrorist outfit.
The doctor was allegedly nabbed aboard a pick-up van plying one of the routes in Borno State with some suspected Boko Haram insurgents.
All the occupants of the vehicle, the doctor included, are said to have fled leaving the vehicle at a military checkpoint as JTF soldiers approached them.

According to a military source, cache of arms and ammunition were found concealed in strategic places in the van when the military men searched the vehicle.
The doctor is reported to have resurfaced later hoping to retrieve his laptop and other documents he had abandoned in the van when he fled.
The military men apprehended him upon his return and interrogated him.
He revealed to the JTF that he is a medical practitioner working with an affiliate of World Health Organisation (WHO).
When asked if he realised the implications of the persons he was travelling with and the arms and ammunition stocked in the vehicle, the doctor reportedly claimed to be working in line with a WHO mandate.
Later, the military reportedly stormed one of the Boko Haram training camps located in the heart of Sambisa Forest in Borno State and discovered an deserted make shift clinic, where injured members of the sect were treated.
Items recovered from the abandoned clinics included needles, syringes, medications, surgical equipment and other medical accessories.
Meanwhile, a lawyer was arrested in Potiskum, Yobe State, for openly propagating the Boko Haram ideology and always defending the sect members whenever they were arrested.
He was allegedly arrested after threatening military authorities.