NOWAYMOWAA: HOW THE ROYAL BENIN MUSEUM WAS HIJACKED AND WHY IT IS IMPORTANT WE RESUME AND COMPLETE THE BUILDING IN ITS ORIGINAL NAME AND PURPOSE AS ROYAL BENIN MUSEUM. ‘EMOWAA’ or its latter name ’MOWAA’ and the grants and funding and architectural design for the building in question (and currently in development) would never have come into being without the issue of the artefacts looted from Benin Kingdom in 1897 by the British forces. The dialogue to have same returned to Benin Kingdom was what started the push for a ‘world class museum’ for precisely the artefacts in question. All of which means this same building ‘MOWAA’ suddenly made a ‘privately owned’ edifice is a matter of much urgency that needs to be investigated by the palace, the state government and the federal government of Nigeria working together. Edo State is the heart of Benin Kingdom, which was founded by the Edo-speaking people. Edo as a state was founded out of the former Bendel Stat...