Rivers: Senator Barinada Mpigi dies at 64

 

Chairman of the Senate Committee on Works, Barinada Mpigi, has died.

Senator Mpigi pass away this morning, Thursday.

The senator was born on June 23, 1961.

Mr Mpigi represented the South-East senatorial district of Rivers until his death.

A source confirmed the lawmaker’s demise to Orange.

The late lawmaker was first elected to the House of Representatives in 2011 and was reelected to a second term in 2016.

In 2019, he was elected as the senator representing Rivers South-East senatorial district on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party.

During the Ninth Assembly, Mr Mpigi was appointed chairman of a joint Senate committee set up to investigate crude oil theft in the Niger Delta region.