Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of taking legal action to seek the release of Nnamdi Kanu.

Ministers and officials have raised Nnamdi Kanu's case with the Nigerian authorities on multiple occasions, most recently with the Foreign Secretary who raised his case with the then Nigerian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama on 14 March 2023, and our High Commissioner with then Minister Onyeama on 22 May 2023. FCDO officials continue to be in regular contact with representatives of Mr Kanu in the United Kingdom and in Nigeria. The Foreign Secretary continues to take the steps he considers most effective to support Nnamdi Kanu's welfare and keeps these steps under review.