Data from the United Kingdom’s ministry of justice has shown that Nigerians are among the least sex offenders in the country.
The Telegraph obtained the data in March under freedom of information laws.
The data showed that foreign nationals were convicted of up to a quarter of sex crimes, including rape, between 2021 and 2023.
Afghans and Eritreans were more than 20 times more likely to account for sexual offence convictions than British citizens.
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Overall, foreign nationals were 71 percent more likely than Britons to be responsible for sex crime convictions.
The highest numbers of sex offence convictions were accounted for by Romanians (987), Poles (208), Indians (148) and Pakistanis (144).
However, the rates, based on convictions per 10,000 of the population put Afghans, with 77 convictions, at the top with a rate of 59 per 10,000 – 22.3 times that of Britons.
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They were followed by Eritreans, who accounted for 59 convictions at a rate of 53.6 per 10,000 of their population.
Nigeria was one of the countries with crimes committed less than Britons.
African nationalities with the most crimes included Congo, Namibia, Somalia, Algeria, Angola, Gambia, Tunisia, and Libya.
By regional distribution, North Africans were convicted at a rate 6.6 times higher than Britons, Middle Easterners at a rate 3.8 times higher, and Sub-Saharan Africans at 2.6 times the rate.
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British think tanks have blamed the high rates of rape, violence, robbery, fraud, and drug offences on mass migration.
