Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 7 September 2022 to Question 45513 on Nnamdi Kanu, whether his Department has provided consular assistance to Mr Kanu in the last 12 months; and what recent discussions he has had with his Nigerian counterpart on Mr Kanu's case.

FCDO officials continue to provide consular support to Mr Kanu, and visited him most recently on 15 August 2023. Consular officials also remain in regular contact with representatives of Mr Kanu in the United Kingdom and in Nigeria. The Foreign Secretary raised Mr Kanu's case with the then Nigerian Minister of Foreign Affairs on 14 March 2023. The British High Commissioner in Abuja also raises his case regularly with the Nigerian authorities, most recently in July 2023.