Minister charged for inflating PPE contract
Mr. Obadiah Moyo in the middle
The health minister in Zimbabwe have been charged with criminal abuse of a public office. He was accused of illegally awarding a multi-million dollar contract for COVID -19 supplies to a shadowy company that sold the government $28 face mask and other PPE at inflated prices..
The country’s anti-corruption agency arrested Obadiah Moyo on Friday and the government cancelled the contracts following public uproar.
Mr. Moyo is the second minister in Emmerson Mnangagwa's cabinet to face corruption charges.
He arrived in court in a state-issued luxury car accompanied by aides, the BBC's Harare correspondent Shingai Nyoka says
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