Wednesday, April 22, 2009

BENIN NEEDS BACK PLUNDERED ARTEFACTS

Benin group protests plundered artefacts in Britain. The Director, Bureau for Cultural Research, Benin National Congress, Mr. Emwanta Osaghae, has written the British Government to return the artefacts violently removed from the Benin Kingdom during its Invasion in 1897.
Osaghae said the Benin people had followed constitutional means in demanding the rerun of the plundered artefacts from Britain.
He said the congress would not to organise a protest at the British High Commissions and embrassed across the world as well as the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation.

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