By Ogochukwu Isioma
Senator representing Rivers South-East, Barinada Mpigi, is dead.
Mpigi died on Thursday.
He was aged 64.
Mpigi was Chairman of the Senate Committee on Works 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.