British Prime Minister
Don't abandon Nnamdi Kanu
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December 31, 2026
Honorable Keir Starmer
Prime Minister
10 Downing Street
London, SWIA 2AA
United Kingdom
Via email: keir.starmer.mp@parliament.uk
Re: Illegally Kidnapped, Tortured, and Imprisoned British Citizen Mazi Nnamdi Kanu in Sokoto, Nigeria
Dear Mr. Prime Minister:
Something is rotten in Great Britain’s indifference to the plight of political prisoner and Biafran Leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.
More than five (5) years ago, Mr. Kanu was kidnapped and tortured in Nairobi, Kenya by the Fulani extremist Government of Nigeria. He was subjected to extraordinary rendition to Abuja, Nigeria, and detained in solitary confinement without access to needed medical care in the custody of the security services.
In July 2022, the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention found that Nigeria had violated sixteen (16) International Human Rights Covenants in criminally abducting and detaining Mr. Kanu. The Working Group directed his immediate and unconditional release and payment of reparations—a directive Nigeria has scorned for more than three years.
Last November, Nigeria sentenced Mr. Kanu to life imprisonment following a show trial worthy of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin. Mr. Kanu was convicted for defending the right of Biafrans to self-determination by peaceful means--a right enshrined in the American Declaration of Independence and the United Nations Charter but extinguished by British machine guns in 1914 in pursuing its cynical colonial policy of divide and rule in amalgamating separate peoples under one sovereign roof.
The United Kingdom has turned a deaf ear to pleas to intervene to secure Mr. Kanu’s release as simple justice requires. He is a British citizen. He is a political prisoner by any definition. And Britian is partially responsible for Mr. Kanu’s persecution in denying Biafrans a self-determination vote in 1960 when Nigeria obtained its independence and in collaborating with the Nigerian government during the Biafran Civil War, 1967-1970, in a Biafran genocide featuring the industrial scale starvation of countless Biafran babies.
Britain, however, has not lifted a finger to end or alleviate Mr. Kanu’s plight and suffering. Is this callousness explained by bribery, oil interests, or racism? Compare your delight in recently welcoming a British political prisoner in Egypt, Alaa Abd el-Fattah, upon his release and return to the United Kingdom. The conspicuous double standard smacks of George Orwell’s Animal Farm: All British political prisoners are equal, but some are more equal than others.
You would earn human rights glitter by negotiating the release of Nnamdi Kanu with Nigerian authorities. Don’t squander the opportunity to leave footprints in the sands of time.
Sincerely,
/s/Bruce Fein
Bruce Fein
International counsel and spokesperson for Nnamdi Kanu
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