PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Nigeria (29 January 2015)

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment the Government has made of financial links between crude oil theft in Nigeria and (a) Boko Haram and (b) wider instability in that country.

Asked by:
Steve Barclay (Conservative)

We have received no evidence of a financial link between oil theft and Boko Haram, although our assessment is that there is a financial link between oil theft, organised crime and insecurity within the Niger Delta region.

Answered by:
Sir Desmond Swayne (Conservative)
3 February 2015