Breaking: Rivers Senator Barinada Mpigi dies at 64
Late Sen. Mpigi
By Reporter
Chairman of the Senate Committee on Works, Senator Barinada Mpigi, is dead.
His death was confirmed by a member of the House of Representatives representing Egbeda/Ona-Ara Federal Constituency of Oyo State, Hon. Akin Alabi.
Sen Mpigi represented Rivers South East in the Senate. He was the Chairman, Senate Committee on Works.”
Born on June 23, 1961, Mpigi represented Rivers South-East senatorial district until his death.
He was first elected into the House of Representatives in 2011 and was re-elected for a second term in 2016.
In 2019, he won election into the Senate on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party to represent Rivers South-East.
During the Ninth Assembly, Mpigi chaired a joint Senate committee set up to investigate crude oil theft in the Niger Delta region.
Further details surrounding his death were not immediately available as of press time.
