“The Governor of Edo State, His Excellency, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has displayed and will continue to display immense respect for our traditional institutions and therefore will continue to make effort to secure a private audience with His Royal Majesty to discuss his concerns.
“Governor Obaseki, meanwhile, expresses his gratitude to the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, President Muhammadu Buhari and Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed and other officials of the federal government for their patriotic and tireless efforts that have brought us to the verge of this eagerly anticipated achievement which has remained elusive for over a century.
“While thanking and congratulating the Federal Government, the President, the Minister, the Royal Palace of the Oba of Benin and all stakeholders who have contributed to the successes so far recorded in this endeavor, the Governor assures that he will continue to work assiduously with all local and international stakeholders for the eventual and final return of these valued records of our great and glorious heritage back to Benin City for the benefit of ALL Edo people, Nigerians and the black...
LEADERSHIP recall that controversy over the stolen items, looted by the British imperialists who invaded Benin Kingdom in 1897, in what is known in historical parlance as “Benin Massacre of 1897”, heightened on Friday last week, when Oba Ewuare II warned that anyone, group, organisation, or government – national and international, dealing with any organisation or artificial group in the process of returning the looted artefacts from the Benin kingdom would be doing so at their own risk and...
The Omo N’Oba gave the warning at a meeting with Palace Chiefs and Enigies on the repatriation of the looted artefacts, against the backdrop that Governor Obaseki had initiated moves to have the anticipated art works housed in a new museum to be known as Edo Museum of West African Arts , to be built by the state government and a private company.
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