BRIEF HISTORY OF BUOYE OMUSO (BROWN) MAJOR HOUSE OF FINIMA

PARAMOUNTCY OF BUOYE OMUSO (BROWN) MAJOR HOUSE IN FINIMA AND ITS TERRITORIAL SETTLEMENTS

Buoye Omuso (Brown) Major House of Finima doesn’t share any of its territorial Settlements with every other House or Family.

The Territorial Settlements of Buoye Omuso (Brown) Major House of Finima, embody; Agia-Okolo, Akusu, Agalanga, Owubipi, Mongolobie (Ajalamonigha-Kiri & Amariari-Kiri), Light House, Finitasingi, Dogokiri, Agaja 1, 2, 3, & 4, Workers Camp, Airport Road/New Road, Government Girls Secondary School, Finima, Mbisughu, Sibekiri, Namata, Gum-Kiri, Bregede, Okumakiri, and many others. Its territorial Settlements are bounded within the South, by the shoreline, and throughout the Bonny River to settlements in Bregede and others, within the East, by a transparent and undisputed boundary with the LongJohn House of Abalamabie, at Gum-Kiri, within the North West, by a creek generally known as Eresinye-Okolo, behind Bonny Government School Bonny.

As a mark of their possession of Finima land, and in recognition of their ancestors’ possession of identical, it was the Buoye Omuso (Brown) Major House that completely owned the Memorial House, Brown Waterfront, Finima Town Square [aka “Buo Nungo] meaning “Buo’s Square” and Brown House War canoe dock house within the Old Finima Settlement, all of which had been changed in New Finima, when the Community was relocated in 1991. Buoye Omuso (Brown) Major House has additionally loved and exercised unique and most acts of possession over all lands in Finima, by constructing thereon, granting licenses to non-members of the House to stay of their settlements, leasing and allocating elements thereof to non-members of the House in addition to third events, together with company organizations and many others.

The well-known and accepted historical past of the founding and possession of Finima by the Buoye Omuso (Brown) Major House is documented and in addition encapsulated in lots of revealed books, and journals, a few of that are;

1. “The Trading States of the Oil Rivers” by G. I. Jones, revealed in 1963, and many others, in addition to
2. Weber’s Intelligence Report on Bonny, 1936.
3. “A History of Grand Bonny” by Professor E. J. Alagoa, revealed in 1972.

There are additionally plethora of determined circumstances on the founding and possession of Finima a few of that are;

1. Suit No. PHC/174/1972 – Chief Samuel O. Tobin & Others VS Chief Israel I. Brown &Others; this judgment on enchantment was affirmed by the Court of enchantment in Enugu in Suit No. FCA/E/60/1980 – Chief Samuel O. Tobin & Others VS Chief Israel I Brown & Others.
2. Suit No: PHC/188/2010 – Chief Y. S. Tobin VS Chief Yibo Buowari Brown & Others.
3. Suit No: PHC/745/2012 – Chief Young Sunday Tobin & Others VS(i) Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited, (ii) Julius Berger Nigeria Plc; (iii) Chief Henry Buowari Brown & (iv)Elder (Barrister) Bara Brown and plenty of different determined circumstances.

The challenge of Paramountcy of the Buoye Omuso (Brown) Major House, in Finima, and the founding of Finima by its ancestors, is properly captured and succinctly placed on web page 99 of the Judgment in Suit No. PHC/174/1972 – Chief Samuel O. Tobin & Others vs. Chief Israel I. Brown & Others, the place the trial Judge Hon. Justice O. Inko-Tariah rightly put it thus;

“The Brown House with its paramountcy in Finima as the founders are the owners of all property vested in the Finima village except property in private ownership of individual families”

It is due to this fact not shocking that, when the early European merchants/missionaries arrived at Bonny Island, they discovered Chief Omoni Jack Brown, who was then the Head & Chief of Buoye Omuso (Brown) Major House and Paramount Chief of Finima, ready of absolute authority in Finima and relative independence with within the Ibani clan. He was titled the “Governor of Finima”. He additionally supplied sanctuary in Finima to King William Dappa Pepple when the latter returned from exile in 1861, and created enabling atmosphere for the early Christian missionaries to propagate the gospel in Ibani land.

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