- Senator Barinada Mpigi Reportedly Dies.
- Lawmaker represented Rivers South East district.
- He chaired Senate Works Committee and oil probe.
Senate Works Committee Chairman Barinada Mpigi Dies at 64
The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Works, Barinada Mpigi, is dead. He was 64.
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EKO HOT BLOG reports that a source confirmed the lawmaker’s passing on Thursday, though details surrounding the circumstances of his death were not immediately disclosed.
Born on June 23, 1961, Mpigi represented Rivers South East Senatorial District in the Senate until his death.
He began his legislative career in 2011 when he was elected into the House of Representatives. He was re elected in 2016 for a second term.
In 2019, he secured election into the Senate to represent Rivers South East Senatorial District on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party.
During the Ninth Assembly, Mpigi chaired a joint Senate committee set up to investigate crude oil theft in the Niger Delta, placing him at the centre of legislative efforts to address oil related economic sabotage.
As Chairman of the Senate Committee on Works, he oversaw federal infrastructure projects across the country and played a key role in legislative supervision of road construction and rehabilitation programmes.
His death marks the end of a political career that spanned both chambers of the National Assembly.
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