{"id":93084,"date":"2021-10-13T21:06:52","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T20:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=93084"},"modified":"2021-10-13T21:06:52","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T20:06:52","slug":"fg-gives-fresh-update-on-repatriation-of-looted-benin-bronzes-from-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/10\/13\/fg-gives-fresh-update-on-repatriation-of-looted-benin-bronzes-from-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"FG gives fresh update on repatriation of looted Benin bronzes from Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Government said the repatriation of the 1,130 looted Benin bronzes from Germany to Nigeria is on track and the matter is on the front burner of both countries.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, disclosed this on Wednesday in Abuja when he received a delegation from Germany to follow up on issues of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/07\/17\/fg-to-take-possession-of-looted-benin-bronzes-when-returned-lai-mohammed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">repatriation<\/a> of the bronzes.<\/p>\n<p>The delegation, led by Dr Andreas Gorgen, the Director-General for Culture and Communication of the German Federal Foreign Office, was accompanied by the German Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr Birgitt Ory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am glad that you have come and this has reinforced the fact that we are on track.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour visit has buttressed the intention of the two parties towards working out the return of the artefacts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to reiterate here that the return of the artefacts will not be the end of an era but rather the beginning of further cooperation between the two countries,\u2019\u2019 the Minister said.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammed expressed satisfaction with the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) earlier signed between the delegation and the National Commission for Museums and Monuments (NCMM).<\/p>\n<p>He said the MoU, which was about confidence-building between the parties, had underscored the fact that no one was reneging on the agreement reached on the return of the cultural objects.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the MoU also showed that everybody was being carried along to ensure successful completion of the transfer of the artefacts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know the burden back home in Germany as your people will be asking, why are they returning the artefacts to Nigeria given the fact they did not steal them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey will be saying, they did not loot them and did not colonise Nigeria but got the artefacts through normal purchases and transactions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThough they are right, the German Government and people have made a very bold statement by agreeing to voluntarily, without coercion from Nigeria, return the artefacts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe return of the artefacts will cement the further the relationship between Nigeria and Germany.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is because Culture today has become one of the most effective tools of soft diplomacy,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister said Germany remained the first country, to return in large number, looted artefacts from Nigeria and the gesture would endear Nigerians and in particular, the people of Edo state to Germans.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammed disclosed that a team of experts would soon be visiting the major museums in Germany where the artefacts were located before the final agreement-signing ceremony in Berlin in December.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in the same vein, Gorgen, the leader of the delegation said the repatriation of the bronzes would strengthen cultural relations between Nigeria and his country.<\/p>\n<p>The Benin bronzes to be repatriated were looted in 1897 when the British Empire invaded the Benin Kingdom in a military expedition.<\/p>\n<p>The objects were later auctioned off in London and elsewhere and soon became central pieces in the collections of many museums in the Global North.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Government said the repatriation of the 1,130 looted Benin bronzes from Germany to Nigeria is on track and the matter is on the front burner of both countries. 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