Our citizen's plight in Nigerian captivity

A FEW days ago I had never heard of Nnamdi Kanu and the chances are neither had you.

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So... briefly. He is 55 and was born and raised in Nigeria; specifically east-was then ern Nigeria which involved in a civil war with the Federal Government in Lagos.

The issue then was the desire of his Igbo people, the majority in Eastern Nigeria, to separate as a new republic of Biafra. It was defeated and re-absorbed but in adulthood this has become his life's cause the re-creation of the vanished Biafra.

So far, so remote from all of us. But he is now and has been for many years a British citizen, his family home is in South London, and that, as for all of us, accords certain rights and protections. One of these is the Consular service which is supposed to do all it can to help us if we ever get into any form of trouble abroad. Several times in my life, I have felt that stiff blue passport in my breast pocket a very comforting bulge.