Question on: JAMB Government - 2015
Which of these rulers resisted colonial rule and was deported to Calabar?
A
King Kosoko
B
King Dosunmu
C
Oba Ovonramwen
D
King Jaja
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Correct Option: C
In February 1897, the British colonial forces invaded and conquered Benin City. Oba Ovoranmwen was dethroned, and deported to calabar where he lived and died in the month of January 1914, after sixteen years of British captivity. He was later buried at old Calabar by official of colonial authority in the absence of his Benin royal family.
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