{"id":43568,"date":"2022-10-11T21:18:17","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T21:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/broadnews\/?p=43568"},"modified":"2022-10-11T21:18:17","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T21:18:17","slug":"u-s-returns-23-looted-benin-bronzes-to-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/broadnews\/2022\/10\/11\/u-s-returns-23-looted-benin-bronzes-to-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. returns 23 looted Benin bronzes to Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\" aria-label=\"Content\">\n<p class=\"entry-title\"><span style=\"font-size: 15px\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/broadnews\/2021\/12\/13\/u-s-tornadoes-buhari-expresses-his-condolences-to-the-people-of-the-united-states\/\">United States<\/a> has repatriated to Nigeria, 23 Benin Bronzes, part of the thousands of artifacts that were looted by the British during their invasion of Benin Kingdom in 1897.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"yiv8140511262gmail_quote\">\n<div>At the repatriation ceremony in Washington, DC, on Tuesday, the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed commended the US for the repatriation of the looted cultural heritage.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>This is contained in statement issued by Mr Segun Adeyemi, Special Assistant To the President (Media)\u00a0Office of the Minister of Information and Culture.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dPlease permit me, on behalf of the government and people of Nigeria, to most sincerely thank the United States and her major cultural heritage institutions for the return of these highly-cherished Benin Bronzes to Nigeria \u2013 which is the reason we are here today,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dThese artifacts are intrinsic to the culture that produced them. A people ought not be denied the works of their forebears. It is in the light of this that we are delighted with today\u2019s repatriation of the Benin Bronzes,\u201d the minister was quoted to have said.<\/p>\n<p>He thanked the Boards of Trustees of the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, the National Gallery of Art and the Rhode Island School of Design for engaging in the discussions with Nigeria\u2019s National Commission for Museums and Monuments that led to the repatriation of the artifacts.<\/p>\n<p>The minister disclosed that Nigeria will soon launch an international traveling exhibition with the artifacts being repatriated \u201din a manner that will win more friends and promote greater goodwill for Nigeria and the ethnic groups that produced the artifacts\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammed said the release of the Benin Bronzes found in the US was a testament to the success of the\u00a0\u00a0Campaign For The Return and Restitution of Nigeria\u2019s Looted\/Smuggled Artifacts from around the world, which was launched in November 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dWe have also received or are in the process of receiving repatriated artifacts from The Netherlands, the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, Mexico, the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom and Germany, among others,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammed recalled that Nigeria and the US have signed a bilateral cultural property agreement to prevent illicit import into the United States of some categories of Nigerian artifacts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dThis agreement solidifies our shared commitment to combat looting and trafficking of precious cultural property, while also establishing a process for the return of trafficked cultural objects, thus reducing the incentive to loot sites in Nigeria,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>In his remarks, Lonnie G. 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