Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, on what date he last met with his Nigerian counterpart to discuss reports of human rights abuses in that country.

We regularly raise the importance of human rights with the Nigerian authorities. During my visit to Nigeria in April I met the Foreign Minister, Geoffrey Onyeama, the President's Chief of Staff, Ibrahim Gambari, as well as community leaders, to discuss insecurity across the country and the importance of protecting the human rights of all Nigerians. In May, I discussed Nigeria's security situation with the Nigerian High Commissioner to the UK.

In my meetings with the President's Chief of Staff and the Governor of Lagos, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, I also discussed the #EndSARS protests in Nigeria in October 2020, and I stressed the importance of the police and military's cooperation with the judicial panels of inquiry, which are investigating reports of police and security service brutality. We will continue to stress the importance of protecting civilians and their human rights in our engagements with the Nigerian Government.