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Is it creating problems for the British?

erico2k2:

yeah I get that, I was only going by what can be proven in a court of law. If you check you will agree with me these where for trae purposes not to steal but as you know it the heart of man is wicked, they looted, raped and stole.

Danzazzausambo:
How have the idols we still have in Nigeria helped us? Please give us another story jor. Do you know what Africans have stolen and transmitted by transmission and omission from the whites? Let's have some omission Transmission please.

musicwriter:


Historians and Africans should stop using the above word that the British has put in our mouths through indoctrination a.k.a education. The so called punitive expeditions were ''stealing expeditions'' carried out all over the world in their greedy quest for world domination. The right word to use is stealing expedition or war of conquest.

How could it be a punitive expedition; when?

In 1887, the British dethroned king Jaja of Opobo and forced him to exile for refusing to allow British monopoly on commodity trade in his kingdom.

In 1861, the British threatened Oba of Lagos, Oba Dosunmu with war for refusing to sign a treaty surrendering Lagos to them as British protectorate. He later succumbed and gave up Lagos as a British protectorate.

In 1895, the British dethroned king Koko Mingi VIII of Nembe and sent him to exile for refusing to accept an exploitative contract term from the royal Niger company- a British colonial monopoly.

In 1735, a British delegation shot Oba Oresoyen in his palace for being stubborn and refusing to take instruction from Queen of England.

In 1897, the British dethroned Oba Ovonramwen of Bini kingdom and sent him to exile after unsuccessful attempts to lure him to surrender his kingdom to slavery. After he was exiled, the British called a meeting of the community, and in a triumphant tone, they said “you see, your King is gone!. From today, you have only one King and her name is Queen Victoria. Henceforth, she’s the only one you shall pay tributes to”.

In 1894, the British exiled king Nana of Itsekiri to Ghana and took over his oil palm factory and cocoa plantation.

In 1896, the British exiled king Prempeh I of Ashanti kingdom for refusing to offer them 50,000 ounces of gold at once, even as the king was begging them he can pay in installments starting with an initial 680 ounces down payment. The British took the 680 initial deposit from him and reneged from the agreement. Finally, the head of the British expedition ordered king Prempeh to vacate his seat and to sit on the floor. When king Prempeh sat on the floor, he sat on Prempeh's official seat and started verbally abusing the king, the Ashanti kingdom, and black people in general with all sorts of derogatory words. When he was done abusing the king, he asked the king to come forward to kiss his boots (his right and left foot) and the king did so. After humiliating the king in the presence of the whole village, he sent him to exile to Seychelles.

Note that king Prempeh did not owe Britain any gold as he didn’t have any business with them; rather, the British heard his official seat was made of real gold, they got jealous and wanted some of the gold. When Prempeh refused to give them gold, they threatened him to provide gold or have his kingdom invaded. The king under fear of exile signed he would provide the gold, but he didn’t have all of the gold at once.

In 1899, the British exiled king Mwanga II of Buganda a.k.a the Kabaka of Buganda to Seychelles. He was dethroned for refusing to convert to Christianity and also for refusing to sign a treaty with Lord Lugard granting Britain power over taxes in his kingdom and trade to the Imperial British East Africa Company.

In 1899, the British shot and wounded king Kabalega of Bunyoro in his palace for refusing to surrender his kingdom to colonialism. He was exiled to the Seychelles and the British installed a puppet king.

In 1883, the British pressured Oba Awujale Fidipote to exile in Epe, after threatening military invasion of his kingdom.

In 1896, the British sent Queen Yaa Asantewaa to exile to the Seychelles for refusing to submit to imperial rule. Queen Yaa Asantewa fought gallantly and was only defeated by a fortified British expeditionary force.

In 1891, the British dethroned and exiled king Waiyaki Wa Hinga. King Waiyaki had earlier made an agreement with the British to allow them settle peacefully in his land. As usual, the British reneged from the agreement few month later, and wanted everything in his kingdom including his seat. A fight ensued and they hit king Waiyaki with (simi) dagger on his head, and planned to take him to court for prosecution. On the way to the court they changed their mind and decided to bury him alive instead. Till today, nobody knows where they buried him.

In Kenya, Britain beheaded another king. King Hinsa or something like that.

The list of dethroned and exiled African kings is endless. There must have been over 2,500 of such cases as ancient Africa was ruled by kings. Every single African king had to be dethroned or exiled for his kingdom to be enslaved. The French, Germans, Spanish, Portuguese, also have their share of these crimes in Africa.

Details at open letter to African kings and traditional rulers http://www.africason.com/2017/03/open-letter-to-african-kings.html

OneKinGuy:
Returning it back to Nigeria will just add more spiritual problems for us. Lets just leave it there for the time being

musicwriter:


Make no mistake, stealing was not an after-thought, but the purpose. Even before leaving Europe, they knew they were going to steal. They knew in advance because Rome already did the same thing to other European countries in medieval times.

Britain, France, Portugal, Spain, and all the other colonialists were simply repeating what they learned from Rome. In fact, when one honest British man returned stolen artifacts to Benin kingdom few years ago, the jotter that the invaders recorded their activities in the so called punitive expeditions labeled the materials as ''loots'' and ''more loots''. See below video.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pM8mNuZb2HY

godfatherx:
Was it stolen or made a gift by the Oba of Benin?
I'm sure the Oba in council are aware of the presence of those artifacts at the museum. Do some background check before crying wolf.

erico2k2:

I stil find it strange how youths born in Nigeria do not even know the geophysical demarcation of Nigeria, Those Artifacts are of the Benin and Yorubas trait!.Im sure the likes of you only travel btw Lagos and Ogun state thazzzzzit.So in ur waaap knowledge if you aint Yoruba or hausa you are Igbo?
This xplains the mass failure in O'level in Nigeria.

erico2k2:

Speak of what you know, go to the Oba of Benin's Palace and see for yourself!

tamethem:


Well I have not been there and don't know what contains there but speaking generally our maintenance culture is bad.

I still maintain that.


Where is Nigeria Airways
Where is Nigeria Railway (just being revived though) but can we still maintain it
What about the National Stadium

My guy I can't mention all.

Can you compare the National Museum to those pics on the thread.

Stop deceiving yourself bro.

Happy Sunday.

MrsNwaAmaikpe:


Honestly, those artworks look beautiful and adorable in the British Museum.

Nevertheless, anything stolen by a thief no matter its worth, will be worth less in the palace of the thief

Africa doesn't value its own. Have you even visited the benin Museum to see the artifacts present there? Leave it there or return it to Nigeria and endless dust at your own peril


Return those art works to Benin and watch them glitter with importance and value

erico2k2:

What war plz

PAGAN9JA:


Very sad.

erico2k2:

Wont it be nice if rent is paid on them? DO you know how much the British make from them being displayed??

HtwoOw:
Ya, you went there to ask them to return it with immediate effect

Bros abeg, who be you ??


Jumaji ?

ariesbull:


Benin invasion when they exiled the oba to Calabar

Oh these kids...they need to read history .. God no go bless that person that removed history from school

Just look at the question my son is asking

dfrost:


We will loot the rent.

gregyboy:
Returning it is not the issue but maintaining it...

Perhaps it is too much for the benins to handle for now....its more than 2000 worth of art piece we have not yet built back the benin walls nor maintain the moat or even the Benin museum its terrible....

If its to collect the important ones leave the rest till when nigeria it better then we could take all back....

The art are in most world power countries just name it ....if not the entire Europe its going ti be difficult to fight all of them ...oba should collect the important one then the british should come to nigeria and make a dublicate of the art work been taking simple.....
But the british sha they wanted to eliminate the full benin race

pawshjai:
lmao....true ooo..true...i concur wif u

OneKinGuy:
Returning it back to Nigeria will just add more spiritual problems for us. Lets just leave it there for the time being

Sarkin:
Or sold.

IPOB AND CRIMES...

SINCE 1804 THEY HAVE BEEN SELLING THEIR PEOPLE AND EVEN THEMSELVES.

OneKinGuy:
Returning it back to Nigeria will just add more spiritual problems for us. Lets just leave it there for the time being

babadee1:


Bini culture is by far closer to Yoruba than to Igbo. They share a great deal of history and tradition in common.

humblenature:


"The greatest fraud/theft the world has ever know was perpetrated by the romans and the British"

Pls Britain, bring back all our stolen artifacts. You are still keeping thousands of them.

Is it your own?. Ehn answer me?

You took us slavery, took our territory and now you give us freedom. True Freedom is not given.

If we are free then why are you still stealing from us?... Why can't you leave us alone?

Must we be gay like you?.. Is it by force? You also want to steal our morality?

Please you have your own sculptors.. Pls return our piece of art before I.......

dermmy:


Are you joking? These things are pointers to our past civilization because the white man would always say Africans have no history/civilization now u are saying it would add to our spiritual problem. What is Spiritual about these things? So sad too bad. I blame our leaders for this they should have made history compulsory for everyone, Africans don't know their history and past civilization