DeFuturePresido:
The crux of the disagreement is this: Who should rightfully take custody of these artefacts? To answer the question, let us take two approaches:

1. Who was the original owner of these artefacts, and who, today, physically embodies that person?

2. Who has the greatest capacity to preserve these artefacts for the greater good of the largest number of people and for posterity? Is it
A. The Benin Royal Palace,
B. A privately managed Museum Trust,
C. The Edo State Government or
D. The Federal Government of Nigeria?

ANSWERS
1. The rightful original "owner" or custodian was Oba Ovonramwen Nogbaisi, who was deposed during the British "punitive expedition" of 9 - 17 Feb 1897, which was led by Rear-Admiral Harry Rawson, and which led to sacking of the Benin empire.

The person that, today, physically embodies Oba Ovonramwen is (unequivocally) the current ruler of Benin Kingdom, Oba Eheneden Erediauwa Ewuare II.

2. The answer to who can best manage the artifacts, unfortunately, is not straight forward. Technically, it should be the Federal or State government. However, you only need to pay a visit to Federal and State museums, libraries, or monuments across the country to understand that good management and maintenance is not a strong point of government in these parts.

That leaves us with The Royal Palace or The Private Trust.

My inclination is to suggest a merger of the two options:

A. The museum/cultural district should be built in the location chosen by the Oba of Benin.
B. The museum/cultural district should be managed by the Private Trust.
C. Oba Ewuare II should be made the Chairman of the Trust.
D. The CEO of the Trust should be a thoroughly seasoned professional and should be chosen via a merit-based selection process.
E. Members of the Trust Board should be drawn equally from nominees provided by the Benin Palace, the State Government, the Trust's Directors and the Federal Government.
F. All decisions should be made via simple majority votes.

I believe that this option will resolve the issue and provide the best solution.

Well spoken!

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True talk. Remember WINNERS neva QUIT.....

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1.The American President has only
TWO aircraft, our president has
9[Nine] in his fleet and was voted
money recently to buy ONE more!
Making it TEN!
2.The British prime Minister has only
TWO official cars, our president has
23 in his pool and only recently voted
300Million Naira to buy TWO more
bullet/bomb proof ones!
3.Senators in the US earn about
$6,000 dollars monthly and that’s
about what a university professor, or
a director in a state department, or a
doctor with 20years experience, or a
teacher with 25years experience
earn too, but Here in Nigeria a
senator earns 245 million Naira per
annum! That’s the salary of 25 vice
chancellors, or 50 medical doctors, or
60 directors, or 500 school teachers!
4.The US, almost the size of Africa
with about 500million people have 24
ministers, and 32 government
parastatals and commissions, Nigeria
has a whooping 42 cabinet ministers,
and over 50[Fifty] government
parastatals!
5.America with about 500million
people and more mileage to drive
consumes 39million litres of petrol
daily, Nigeria with 150million people
60% out of which live in remote
areas, yet our government tells us we
consume about 35million litres of
petrol daily!
I sincerely weep for Nigeria!

Politics.

I don hear. Thk u.

Thks 4 d info.

Akwa Ibom State Governor,
Godswill Akpabio had on Tuesday
made a biblical allusion, while
declaring that there were “more
Judases than disciples” in the
Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF).
His statement has been seen by
some analysts as an attack on
Rivers State Governor, Rotimi
Amaechi, Chairman of the NGF and
other governors who have kicked
against the second term ambition
of President Goodluck Jonathan.
Prominent among the judases
could be Sule Lamido of Jigawa and
Babangida Aliyu of Niger state.
Akpabio who is the Chairman of
the newly formed Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) Governors
Forum, said this during a courtesy
call on the National Working
Committee ( NWC) of the party in
Abuja.
He said it was unfortunate that the
leadership of the forum have
maintained a hard stance against
President Goodluck Jonathan.
Akpabio reiterated that the PDP
Governors’ Forum would not
operate as a parallel body to the
NGF.
“PDP is the only party with
national spread and Nigerians
have come to accept it. But when
there is an implosion, when you
have more Judases than
disciples.The Judases are more
than disciples now. We have to
cleanse the system of Judases to
support Mr. President.
“Where there is treachery, where
there are more Judases than you
have disciples, we want to have
good disciples, we know that even
in Christendom when Jesus Christ
have 12 disciples, there was one
Judas, but if the Judas were up to
nine, then, Jesus could have been
in trouble, the gospel would have
been in trouble today.
“What the PDP is
trying to do now is to cleanse its
house, to try to identify the ones
they called Judas and whisper it to
them and said go out, the train is
moving and you cannot stand,
otherwise we will crush you. That’s
the new PDP; it isn’t to challenge
the Nigerian Governors’ Forum,
but to strenghten it. We will not
allow minorities to impose their
ideas on us the majority. We will
not allow NGF to be seen as a trade
union to fight government. We
cannot be fighting the Federal
Government; we are part of the
Federal Government. Our job is to
work with the Federal Government
to initiate best policies for the
interest of Nigerians.”
He thanked President Goodluck
Jonathan and PDP National
Chairman, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur,
for anointing him for the office,
assuring the party’s national
leadership of his total support as
Chairman of PDP governors.
“I thank Mr. President and Alhaji
Bamanga Tukur for finding me
worthy to lead the PDP Governors’
Forum. There was no PDP Forum
14 years ago, because there was
no need then. But today, we are
facing challenges and it is a
function of PDP fighting itself. That
forum isn’t about NWC, the forum
is subordinate to the party, it will
work in conjunction with the party.
Once you give a directive, the
millions of PDP supporters will get
the message. We aren’t going to
toy with the mandate given us. We
will work with the party and Mr.
President to propagate the ideals
of PDP.”
Reacting, Tukur thanked Governor
Akpabio for the visit and assured
him of the support of the PDP
NWC.
He said with the new mandate,
President Jonathan would no
longer be distracted in the
discharge of his duties.
“PDP is ready more than ever
before to face the challenges,
because PDP as a party is in every
polling booth in Nigeria. No party
fields candidate in every polling
booth in Nigeria, only PDP. With
your support and understanding, I
can tell Mr. President, “if you have
been sleeping for three hours,you
can now sleep well! You can even
take a siesta,” Tukur said.

lucenzo: With all these reports coming in, it shows that Baba was a prayer warrior. Baba combines both God and devil.

Point of correction:
U can never combine GOD and devil pls note that.

My 3gs is failing 2 jail break. I hav tryed runin the Os but it end up showing error after a long period of installation and wen I try to jail break it shows error.

Defination of madness. Mtsheeeeeeew!

Nice one. Dat will help co-ordinate dose black boiz.

High level of Kindnapin and Robbery etc are products of bad government. Dey should all feel d heat.

High level of Kidnapin and Robbery etc are products of bad government. Dey should all feel d heat. Mtsheeeeeeew!

sub_zero: Peter Obi? Is he a ward chairman?

. Yes o.

killuminati: Oh gadem imagine how many bags of GARRI don soak like this

Water don pass GARRI Ooo

Lolz. U nid deliverance.

RIP

chaido_fx:

Omo na fight!

Its only a question o. So answer yes or no.

ololo12: Oh God please make the UK embassy give me Visa....... So that I can defect from this country, just in time. Before this war starts!!....

U want 2 run frm ur fadaland because of war. Smh 4 u.