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British University Hands Over Stolen Benin Bronze Cockerel To Nigeria

A Cambridge University college Has Handed Over The Statue Of A Bronze Cockerel Looted By British Colonial Forces During Its Invasi...
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British University Hands Over Stolen Benin Bronze Cockerel To Nigeria
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A Cambridge University college has handed over the statue of a bronze cockerel looted by British colonial forces during its invasion of Benin in 1897 to representatives of Nigeria.

The statue, locally called “Okukur”, was given to Jesus College in 1905 by the father of a student, BBC reported.

The college’s Legacy of Slavery Working Party had in 2019 concluded that the cockerel “belongs with the current Oba at the Court of Benin.”

This conclusion came after the college removed the statue on display in 2016, saying it will be given to Nigeria’s National Commission for Museums and Monuments.

“It’s massively significant,” BBC quoted the master of Jesus College, Sonita Alleyne, as saying at a handover ceremony held at the college Wednesday. “It’s a momentous occasion.”

She added that returning the artefact was the “right thing to do” especially because the said bronze statue was of “cultural and spiritual significance to the people of Nigeria.”

“It’s part of their ancestral heritage,” Ms Alleyne added.

The Nigerian delegation is expected to decide decide how and when to move the Okukur.

Having crushed Benin’s resistance to its expansionist move, the eventual conquest of Benin by British forces was characterized by large scale systematic destruction and looting.

Described by author Max Siollun in his book, What Britain Did to Nigeria, as “one of the most brazen cases of colonial looting that Britain committed in Africa,” British invaders looted a haul of carved bronze, ivory and artworks, insignia and sculptures which were hundreds of years old and presented them as trophies among themselves, including to the Queen.

Information minister Lai Muhammad had in 2019 said the Nigerian government will use all “legal and diplomatic instruments” to demand the return of Nigeria’s stolen artefacts and cultural materials worldwide.

At the handover ceremony, the Oba of Benin, Omo N’Oba N’Edo Uku Akpolokpolo, Ewuare II, said he hoped that others would “expedite the return of our artworks, which in many cases are of religious importance to us.”

In March, the University of Aberdeen also said it will return a Benin Bronze to Nigeria within weeks, becoming the first institution to do so more than a century after Britain looted the sculptures and auctioned them to Western museums and collectors.

COURT FINALLY DECLARES BANDITS AS TERRORISTS

A Federal High Court In Abuja Has Declared The Activities Of Yan Bindiga And Yan Ta’adda Bandit Groups As Acts Of Terr*rism.

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A federal high court in Abuja has declared the activities of Yan Bindiga and Yan Ta’adda bandit groups as acts of terr*rism.

Taiwo Taiwo, presiding judge, gave the order on an ex parte motion filed by the federal government. Mohammed Abubakar, director of public prosecution (DPP) at the federal ministry of justice, who filed the motion ex-parte, said President Muhammadu Buhari gave approval for his action, of which objective is the proscription of Yan Bindiga and Yan Ta’adda groups and other terrorist groups in the country.

In its supporting affidavits, the federal government said security reports have confirmed that the bandit groups were responsible for the k*llings, abductions, r*pes, kidnappings and related acts of criminality in the north-east, north-central and other parts of the country.

“The activities of Yan Bindiga and Yan Ta’adda groups and other similar groups constitute acts of terr*rism that can lead to a breakdown of public order and safety and is a thr*at to national security and the corporate existence of Nigeria,” the government’s statement read in part.
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Delivering ruling on Thursday, the court specifically declared the activities of the “Yan Bindiga group” and the “Yan Ta’adda group” and other similar groups in any part of the country, especially in the north-west and the north-central as “acts of terr*rism and illegality”.
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The court proscribed the activities of the group as well as other similar groups in any part of Nigeria, “either in groups or as individuals by whatever names they are called”. The judge also made an order restraining “any person or group of persons from participating in any manner whatsoever, in any form of activities involving or concerning the prosecution of the collective intention or otherwise of the Yan Bindiga group and the Yan Ta’adda group under any other name or platform however called or described”.
 

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