Oba Overami gives testimony in the Trial of the King and Chiefs of Benin indicted with murdering Acting Consul Phillips and six other white men.
Consul General Moor acquits Oba Overami of the charge but dethrones him and relegates him to the position of an ordinary chief of villages to be allocated if and when he can prove himself capable of such responsibility.
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Consul General Moor acquits Oba Overami of the charge but dethrones him and relegates him to the position of an ordinary chief of villages to be allocated if and when he can prove himself capable of such responsibility.
Read the full trial transcript here --->