Manhyia receives 28 extra looted artefacts
Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, The Asantehene, has taken supply of 28 gold artefacts looted through the Sagrenti War at a grand durbar on the Manhyia Palace in Kumasi.
This fashioned a part of actions to make the a centesimal anniversary celebration of the return King Prempeh I from exile.
Representative of AngloGold Ashanti who bought the artefacts from an artwork collector at West African works in 1922, handed over the ornaments to the King of Asante, bringing the whole variety of restituted Asante artifacts from the British plunder within the 1900s to 67.
The symbolic artifacts from South Africa embrace linguist workers, swords, palace safety locks, rings, necklaces, and proverbial gold-weights depicting crocodiles and gold scandals.
Leading the official handover on the Durbar had been Mr. Stewart Bailey, the Chief Sustainability and Corporate Affairs for AngloGold Ashanti, Ambassador Baso Sangqu, the Senior Vice President Group Sustainability,
Dr. Ivor Agyemang-Duah, Director of the Manhyia Palace Museum, mentioned the choice to strategy the mining agency for the artifacts adopted intelligence in regards to the housing of some Asante Artefacts at Javett Art Centre on the University of Pretoria.
Mr. Stewart Bailey, the Chief Sustainability and Corporate Affairs for AngloGold Ashanti, mentioned he was honoured to be concerned within the return of the artifacts to their rightful place.
“It is a profound honour for me personally to be engaged within the mission to move the treasures right here to Kumasi the place they had been crafted.
“We are deeply honoured to be part of this significant moment in history to ensure that these cultural treasures are accessible not only to the Ashanti people but to Ghanaians in general,” he remarked.
The artifacts will now be exhibited within the Manhyia Palace Museum.
Among these in attendance had been paramount chiefs of Asante, the President of Seychelles, H.E. Wavel Ramkalawan, First Lady of Seychelles, H.E. Linda Ramkalawan, Prime Minister of Eswatini, Russell Mmiso Dlamini,
Source: GNA
