A Briton has returned artefacts taken from the Benin Kingdom, the capital city of Edo State in Nigeria's south-south. The custodian of the looted Benin Artefact, Dr Adrain Mark-Walker, told Channels Television that the artefacts returned on Friday, were taken by his grand-father, Captain Walker who was a young captain when he came to Benin, as part of the 1897 "so called punitive expedition". "The punitive expedition, as most people know, destroyed Benin that year and they found in the city, very many bronzes and ivory artefacts and most of them were taken by the admiralty to defray the cost of the expedition and so, that is how they have found their way to the museums all over the world. Some were allowed to be kept by the officers and I remember seeing some objects in my grand-mother's house and I was told they were from Benin," he said. He said that his ground father had kept a diary describing every day of the actions from the day he left Liverpool to the day he returned.

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