Late chief Konam porbeni died as far back as 1980 and was buried in Abari the commercial axis of his community.

In his lifetime, he was a great man imbued with impeccable character and untainted integrity. He was a prominent chief and a paliamentarian. The values he held strongly to has become a trade mark for the porbeni dynasty.

Late chief Konam porbeni the Etonkepua of kabowei kingdom is the progenitor of Admiral F B I porbeni, one of Nigeria’s foremost pioneer commander of Nigeria’s premiere warship NNS Aradu, a one time minister of transport and a distinguished ambassador of the federal republic of Nigeria.

Owing to constant flooding that keeps ravaging the Niger Delta. the river Focados that flows through the bank of Aduku and Abari in Bayelsa and Delta state made the resting place of late chief Konam porbeni almost washed away by the flood.

Consequently, the head of the porbeni family chief E O Porbeni directed Admiral FBI porbeni to organise a re-burial for their late fathers.
On may 7th 2021, the revered aristocratic family porbeni decided to exhume the remains of their late father and two of his older brothers for proper re-burial in their ancestral home Aduku in sagbama local government of Bayelsa state .