Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 4 July 2023 to Question 191529 on Nnamdi Kanu, what discussions he has had with his Commonwealth counterparts on whether the Nigerian government has upheld the principles set out in the Charter of the Commonwealth of Nations in its treatment of Nnamdi Kanu.

The Secretary of State has not had any discussions with Commonwealth counterparts on whether the Nigerian Government has upheld the principles set out in the Charter of the Commonwealth of Nations in its treatment 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.