The auction house Christie had said that the collector acquired them from an African dealer in 1968 or 1969, either in Cameroon or Paris, before they were later acquired by another private collector and that the auctioning is perfectly legal.
The wooden carved supposedly Igbo deities which is about 1.5m tall is believed to have been stolen from Biafra or South Eastern Nigeria.
News about the auction is all over the social media.
