Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, when was the most recent contact between UK consular representatives and Nnamdi Kanu in Nigeria; whether he has received recent representations about Mr Kanu’s health and wellbeing; and whether he has held recent discussions on Mr Kanu’s case with his counterparts in Nigeria.

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.