Petition for Indigenous People of United Kingdom of Great Benin Empire (UKGB)
 
A Clarion call on all Benin descendants to join the movement for the return of the Bight of Benin and the Benin river, which has direct access to the sea, and had been parts of the Ancient Benin Empire from time immemorial. It was falsely added to, or become part of what we know today as Nigeria, after the British invasion in the year 1897. Currently, the Edo State which was then the capital of the Benin Empire is now landlocked, and this is unacceptable.
 
This is why we are demanding a total return of the Bight of Benin to the Benin people and the Benin Kingdom at large. 
 
The bight of Benin, a bay of the Atlantic Ocean on the western coast of Africa, extends eastward for about 400 miles (640 km) from Cape St. Paul (Ghana) to the Nun outlet of the Niger River (Nigeria). To the east it continues by the Bight of Bonny . The Republic of Benin and this bight were both named after the Ancient people of Benin.[1]
 
It lies within the Gulf of Guinea and is bordered by southeastern Ghana, Togo, the Republic of Benin, and southwestern Nigeria. The Bight of Benin receives a portion of the Niger River discharge and also the Sio, Haho, Mono, Couffo, Ouémé, Benin, Forcados, and other rivers. Major ports on the bay are Lomé, Togo; Cotonou, Benin; and Lagos, Nigeria.- excerpts from  Britannica.
 
 
The old Royal Navy rhyme says:
 
Beware, beware the Bight of Benin, for few come out though many go in.
A variation goes:
 
Beware, beware, the Bight of Benin: one comes out, where fifty went in!
This is said to be a slavery jingle or sea shanty about the risk of malaria in the Bight.[4]
 
A third version of the couplet is: Beware and take care of the Bight of Benin. There is one comes out for forty goes in.