In 1905 Neville presented and bequeathed Okukor to Jesus College. According to its own records, the college “agreed gratefully to accept” the “gift of the bronze figure of a cock which formed part of the spoil captured at Benin, West Africa and to thank Mr Neville for making this appropriate gift”. Neville had been a student at the college. The heraldic arms of Jesus College include three cocks, a form of canting arms in honour of its founder Bishop John Alcock. The statue was displayed in the dining hall at Jesus College until 2016, when the college council had it removed from display and agreed to consider its future. In the aftermath of the Rhodes Must Fall campaign, there were demands that the statue should be returned to Africa. It was removed from public display in March 2016, with the intention of repatriating it to Nigeria. Despite constant appeals from Prince of Benin Gregory Akenzua, the Okukor remains stored at the college. In 2019 Jesus College agreed that Okukor "belongs with the current Oba at the Court of Benin” and should be returned to Nigeria, although it did not specify a date by which this would take place.