The Director of Public Prosecutions has cast her net wider in the ongoing investigations and subsequent prosecutions over the Karamoja iron sheets scandal to include officials at the Office of the Prime Minister.

The DPP, Jane Frances Abodo told journalists while at the sidelines of the   opening ceremony of this year’s  National Symposium of Prosecutors  at Imperial Royale Hotel in Kampala that they are going to move even to the Office of the Prime Minister to investigate the officials there.

A dozen of cabinet ministers and 16 lawmakers were implicated in a scandal in which 10,000 iron sheets earmarked for distribution to vulnerable communities in Karamoja Sub-region were misappropriated.

The iron sheets were procured using part of the shs39.9billion supplementary budget meant disarmament and community empowerment program for the reformed warriors and other vulnerable groups like the elderly and women in Karamoja sub-region.

Speaking on Tuesday afternoon, the DPP said more ministers and other high-ranking government officials are lined up for court.