Claim: Akenzua II led the movement in returning the Benin Bronzes to Nigeria, but only two of the 3,000 bronzes were returned.
Evidence: In 1936, he began the movement to return to Nigeria the Benin Bronzes looted from the royal compounds and ancestral altars in the punitive Benin Expedition of 1897. During his reign, only two of the 3,000 royal court bronzes were returned.