HARARE – HEALTH Minister Obadiah Moyo was arrested on Friday over an international Covid-19 procurement scandal exposed by ZimLive.
Moyo, appointed to the position in 2018, was initially picked up by officers from the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) on Thursday evening, but President Emmerson Mnangagwa allegedly ordered him released because he had not been informed of the plan to arrest him, according to sources.
ZACC spokesman John Makamure told ZimLive on Friday night: “Yes, he has been arrested and is in detention. That’s all I can say for now.”
Details of the charges were not released. Moyo was spending the night at Rhodesville Police Station in Harare before his appearance in court on Saturday.
A ZimLive investigation exposed how Moyo and top executives from the government-owned National Pharmaceutical Company (NatPharm) handpicked companies not on the procurement register to supply drugs worth millions of dollars during the Covid-19 national emergency.
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