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Adibe Emenyonu A socio-cultural group, Benin Solidarity Movement (BSM) worldwide, has tackled the Igun-Igbesamwan-Owina descendants on their position over the custody of the expected looted artefacts from the palace of the Ovbuoramwen N’Ogbasi, the Oba of Benin Kingdom in 1887. The Igun-Igbesanwan-Owina Descendants Cultural Movement of Europe and America in an open letter to the federal government, through the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, had demanded that the proposed return of the artefacts should not be taken to the palace of the Oba of Benin but to those who originally carved them. The group’s position, which was contained in the letter titled: ‘Open Letter on the Return of Benin Court Arts Now Referred to as Benin Artefacts’, and endorsed by Erhauyi Isokponwu and Adolor Oviasu-Oreoghene, claimed that thousands of looted artefacts to be returned from Germany were looted from their ancestral shrines in their quarters at Igun, Igb ....
Bennett Oghifo The descendants of Bini bronze casters have appealed to the federal government not to release the looted artefacts from Germany to the Oba of Benin, claiming that thousands of Bronzes and Ivories were looted from their ancestral shrines in their quarters at Igun, Igbesamwan and Owina, just outside the ancient palace. Their appeal is contained in a letter to the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, signed by Erahuyi Isokponwu, President â Europe; and Adolor Oviasu-Oreoghene, President â America on the platform of Igun-Igbesamwan-Owina Descendants Cultural Movement of Europe and America. They claimed that ever before the Portuguese explorers and Christian missionaries sojourned to Benin Kingdom, the Bronze Smiths of Igun, Igbesamwan and Owina, who âwere the ancestral producers of all Benin Bronzes were our fathers and owners of over 75 per cent of the looted Benin artefacts. ....