Zimbabwe’s health minister nabbed over graft charges

ANKARA

Zimbabwe’s health minister has been arrested in the capital Harare over corruption charges, local media reported on Saturday.

Obadiah Moyo was arrested Friday by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) over allegations of illegally awarding a multi-million-dollar contract for medicines and surgical sundries to Drax International LLC, according to the Herald daily.

“ZACC spokesperson Commissioner John Makamure said Minister Moyo is detained at a Harare police station and likely to appear in court tomorrow (Saturday),” Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) said in a Twitter post on Friday.

“We are looking at the whole procurement system for Covid-19 to establish systems compliance in handling and managing both procurements and donations. We have two processes: the investigation arm and another comprising our officers carrying out a review of the whole procurement system to ensure compliance. This is being done with a view to making recommendations on how it can be improved,” the Herald quoted Makamure as saying.

“Where a crime is suspected to have been committed, our investigation arm will come in. We have officers looking at the whole procurement processes in an emergency such as Covid-19,” he added.

ANKARA

Zimbabwe’s health minister has been arrested in the capital Harare over corruption charges, local media reported on Saturday.

“Where a crime is suspected to have been committed, our investigation arm will come in. We have officers looking at the whole procurement processes in an emergency such as Covid-19,” he added.