Acting Director General National Commission for Museums and Monuments (NCMM) Abdulkerim Kadiri, who made the revelation, said that Nigeria’s antiques are really treasured all over the world.
He said: “Nigerian artifacts all over the country are really valued and treasured which is why our pieces create a lot of sensation over the world. We are trying our best now to restitute, to collect whatever artifact we have abroad back into Nigeria especially all those that were exported out of our country without passing due process.
We are presently interacting with the entire world not just one country, in October last year we were in the Netherlands where we attended the Benin dialogue group..
Most of our artifacts are in Europe, remember in the 1897 Benin expedition where the Europeans invaded the Benin kingdom and took hundreds of thousands of our artifacts out illegally and these artifacts which are highly valued have found themselves all over the world through Europe, America, Asia etc.
“All the participating countries in Europe have agreed that these objects should be returned back to Nigeria.
“For that we have agreed that a Benin palace museum will be built in Benin in addition to the National Museum that we already have where this antiquities will be returned and exhibited for a period of three years then loaned to the member participating countries to be taken around the world rather than leaving them in one place and that is the agreement we had but the aim is to ensure that they are finally restituted and brought back to Nigeria.”
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*Loan back for what?why dont they give them a copy of what they returned and leave the Original in a museum in Benin?
You see how the whites manipulate the black race into total submission. Why the loan after returning it? This is really crazy.
ReplyDeleteStella you nova kn this people. This is a means to steal money. The kind Of money they will embesle with the entire process will be huge. Forget this people
ReplyDeleteStella, I follow you say loan back for what nah?
ReplyDeleteI understand that these artefacts were “stolen” from us but I think fighting to bring them back to Nigeria will add little to no value to Edo state or Nigeria as a whole. I suggest the artefacts be loaned back to the EU and any proceeds made by the EU museums should be shared with Edo (if that is not currently the case).
ReplyDeleteExactly!
DeleteExactly!
DeleteMay people who have stolen from your life give you conditions and tell you they will loan back to you what truly belongs to you cos it will add no value to you. Since some of you want to be unfortunate
DeleteWhat happens to the museum you are building when the artifacts are loaned back?
ReplyDeleteExcellent thinking! It will deteriorate like other government structures before it. Let them keep it in Europe and be jejely sharing the money from with us on a 50-50 basis. Dasall!
DeleteCan you imagine? SMH
ReplyDeleteWill we be able to take care of them properly? Let it not come and deteriorate in Nigeria. We are known for lack of maintenance
ReplyDeleteVery correct. That's if it's not stolen in less than year. Government will now investigate the matter for another ten years. Let it remain in Europe mbok.
DeleteI refuse to believe any Edo monarch will agree to this nonsense deal that is sounding like what only Pharaoh will say
ReplyDeleteI think they should leave them in the EU. Nigerians do not appreciate their artefacts. How many people go to the National Museum? Is it well maintained? I don't think so.
ReplyDeleteSeconded.
DeleteYes..oh better keep them in europe!!!
DeleteReturn them to africa & u see them on sale in bini area market as juju & otumokpo ingredients. All the artifacts will be used for firewood or for metal scrap purposes!
Can Nigerians maintain & look after something at all valuable???
Ndi ara!!!
Where is the Nigerian Airways?
ReplyDeleteHow's the National Arts theater Iganmu Lagos?
How is the National stadium surulere; is it no overgrown with forests?
Why return it to Nigeria?
Are they not safe where they are?
If those artifacts were in Nigeria since then
will they have been valued, won't people have stolen them
or politicians sold them off and pocketed the monies?
Ways to steal more money EFCC won't see this one now
ReplyDeleteImagine it. A thief telling the owner that they will loan them back their property but they must return it back to the thief eventually. Until blavknnations get conscious about becoming wealthy and powerful in the global sphere shit like this will continue to happen. The bully knows who to attack. Mtschhw
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