Three British foreign secretaries have failed to call for the release of a British national being held in Nigeria
Three British foreign secretaries have failed to call for the release of a British national being held in Nigeria after falling victim to a “brazen and violent” act of extraordinary rendition, the high court has heard. Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob), a prominent separatist movement proscribed in Nigeria, was abducted , unlawfully detained and tortured in Kenya in June last year before being flown blindfolded on a private plane to Nigeria, the court was told on Monday. Charlotte Kilroy KC, representing Kanu’s brother, Kingsley Kanu, said the independence leader had been held in Nigeria ever since, largely in solitary confinement, in poor conditions and without access to medical treatment for a heart condition, which had put his life at risk. She said successive foreign secretaries – first Liz Truss , then Dominic Raab and now James Cleverly – had unlawfully failed to act despite “clear and overwhelming” evidence of extraordinary rendition, includin