 A bar of Benin Aware, the second, has asked the federal government to temporarily take custody of a thousand 130 stolen Benin artefacts after they are repatriated from Europe. That has made the controversy surrounding where the artefacts will be housed. The Benin Palace and the Edo State Government have been at loggerheads over where the artefacts will be housed, and while the palace wants the artefacts kept in the Benin Royal Museum, which will be built within the palace, the state government wants the items preserved in the proposed Edo Museum of West African Arts. But Oba Aware too, at a world press conference on Friday, at the palace said that there was no controversy over the issue. As an agreement had been reached that the artefacts will be housed in the Royal Museum, the artefacts were allegedly looted during the invasion of the Benin Kingdom in 1897 by the British led by Captain Philip.