Tanzania's energy minister quits over graft scandal, denies wrongdoing

A Tanzanian engineer walks at the Songas gas processing plant in Songo Songo Island, 225 km south of the Tanzanian capital Dar es Salaam and 25 km off the coast of Tanzania in a ile photo. REUTERS/Emmanuel Kwitema

DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - Tanzania's Energy and Minerals Minister Sospeter Muhongo resigned on Saturday amid a graft scandal that has rocked the gas-rich country and led Western donors to delay aid, though he called himself "incorruptible" and denied wrongdoing.

   Muhongo became the third cabinet member, after the attorney general and the minister for land, to lose his job over the scandal, which involves the transfer of at least $122 million.