Buhari presents stolen artifacts to Benin monarch
Representative of President Buhari, Nigeria’s High Commissioner to United Kingdom, Sarafa Ishola Tunji (left), Oba of Benin, Oba Ewuare II and Director General of National Commission for Museums and Monuments (NCMM), Prof. Abba Isa Tijjani, during the physical presentation of the returned looted Benin artefacts yesterday in Benin City, Edo State.
President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, presented the returned bronze artifacts of the Benin Kingdom to the Oba of Benin, His Royal Majesty, Oba Ewuare II after, 150 years after the British naval expedition of 1897.
Buhari, who was represented by the Nigerian Ambassador to the British High Commissioner, Sarafa Ishola Tunji, during the event, said the Nigerian government is happy that it is happening in this era.
According to him, one of the monuments returned, the Cockerel is valued at 2m pounds while the other, Oba’s head, is valued at 500,000 pounds.
The two items returned were from Jesus College Cambridge, UK and the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, which was among the 10,000 wild theft of royal and sacred artworks during the British expedition and sacking of Benin City.
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