The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Works, Barinada Mpigi, has died at 64 after a bout of illness.

A strong ally of Nyesom Wike, Mpigi represented the South-East senatorial district of Rivers until his death.

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.
He had been away from parliamentary duties following the illness that later took his life.