Hanna Brent (CDC-Montserrado County) a junior Senator in the Liberian Senate died yesterday at the Seventh Day Adventist Hospital on 12th Street Sinkor. The lawmaker had been nursing a swollen foot over the past few days and was in intensive care until her death late Monday.

Prior to her death Brent served as Junior Senator of Montserrado and a member of several committees at the Liberian senate including Co-Chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Industry, Trade and Transportation.

Before her election to the senate Brent served at the Ministry of Planning and Economics Affairs in different capacities including: Junior Statistician, Training & District Supervisor, Sr. Statistician and member, Millennium Development Goals Secretariat, INDP/MPEA.

Brent also served as Research Analysts at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Brent holds a BBA in Business Management from the University of Liberia, certificates in Statistics for within and outside Liberia and was enrolled at the Graduate Program in International Relations at the University of Liberia.

Meanwhile, family sources as well as  those from the  Upper House have  informed the Analyst that Senator Brent has been ill  for the past months, and has been absent for legislative duty for a little while now.

The death of the CDC Lawmaker brings to three the number of Senators who have died from the 52nd National Legislature since the Ellen Johnson Sirleaf led government came to power in 2006

It can be recorded that Senator Isaac Johnson and Samuel Timottie of River-Gee and Gbarpolu Counties respectively have all fallen prey to the cold hands of death as well.

The late senator Brent was among the group of five female senators of a male dominated Upper House of Parliament, and her demise has created a vacancy in the Liberian Senate for a bye election which is expected to be filled in  with the period of ninety days as required by the Liberian constitution.

Senator Brent was the chairman of the Senate Committee on Gender and Children Welfare and was a also member of several Statutory committees of the Liberian Senate

Political pundits say the expected bye election to fill the post of Montserrado County Junior Senator will be highly contested among three of the country’s top political parties including the ruling Unity party, opposition political parties of the Congress for Democratic Change (CDC), the Liberty Party and others.