A Conservative peer has been accused of breaching the ministerial code after her family firm signed multimillion-pound deals to supply Uganda’s government with solar power equipment. Sandip Verma’s company, Nexus Green, has signed two deals worth more than £88m after meetings with the sub-Saharan country’s notoriously homophobic president, Yoweri Museveni. She was present when Nexus Green signed an £8m deal to provide the Ugandan military with solar power, eight months after leaving her job as a junior development minister. The following month Rikki became director of Nexus Green, a company based in a building in Leicester jointly owned by his parents. Any suggestion Baroness Verma has is farcical, not least because when in office her ministerial brief did not cover Uganda,” she said.

Source: The Guardian September 03, 2020 12:02 UTC