- He was born 43 years ago in Agana Town, Andoni Local Government Area of Rivers State, Nigeria.
- He is an Electrical Engineer. A Chartered Engineer and a fellow of the Institute of Engineering and Technology.
- He moved to the UK at age 15, precisely in 1991.
- Before his appointment as the serjeant-at-arms, he was the British Parliament’s Principal Electrical Engineer. Even with his recent appointment, this position has not changed
- He was and is still the Programme Director for the Estate-wide Engineering Infrastructure and Resilience (EWEIR) Programme – which aims to make the parliamentary estate more energy efficient and carbon neutral by 2050.
- In 2018, he reduced the cost of providing emergency electrical power to the estate from £1m to £275,000 a year.
- Ugbana has a strong track record of delivering multi-billion-pound projects, from a £1.8bn village complex and gated community in Abu Dhabi – in time for the first Grand Prix in there in 2009 – to a new city in Saudi Arabia including a power station and desalination plant worth tens of billions of pounds.
- He is married to his childhood sweetheart; Claire whom he met at school in Chichester, and they have four (4) children; three (3) sons and a daughter aged between 14 and 23.
- In his spare time, Ugbana plays basketball with his sons in their local team and sings with the St Mary’s Undercroft choir at one of the staff Carol services in Speaker’s House.
- As part of his new role as the serjeant-at-arms, he will be the carrier of the House of Commons mace during the Speaker’s procession, and into the House of Lords during the State Opening of Parliament.
- He will also run a team of 70 staff, covering the Serjeant’s Office, the access team, the doorkeepers and business resilience.
Reference: https://www.parliament.uk
