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Ugandan prosecutors have charged a second government minister with corruption-related offences in a scandal stemming from the diversion of roofing sheets that should have been distributed to vulnerable people.
Amos Lugoloobi, the state minister for finance in charge of planning, pleaded not guilty to the charges when he was arraigned in a courtroom in the capital, Kampala.
Another minister, Mary Kitutu, was similarly charged last week.
Report say at least 22 top officials are implicated in the scandal, including the vice president, the parliamentary speaker, the prime minister, and government ministers.
President Yoweri Museveni, whose government is often accused of lacking the political will to stem corruption, has ordered detectives to investigate the case.
He said that those deemed responsible for diverting thousands of metallic roofing sheets that had been appropriated for people in the remote region of Karamoja should be…
