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Zimbabwe’s health minister fired over COVID-19 graft scandal
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By Farai MutsakaThe Associated Press
Tue., July 7, 2020timer1 min. read
HARARE, Zimbabwe - Zimbabwe’s health minister has been fired for inappropriate conduct after he was accused of illegally awarding a multi-million-dollar contract for COVID-19 medical supplies to a shadowy company that sold the government $28 face masks and other materials at inflated prices.
A statement Tuesday by the chief secretary for President Emmerson Mnangagwa announced the removal of Obediah Moyo.
Moyo last month was charged with criminal abuse of duty as a public officer. Zimbabwe’s anti-corruption agency had arrested him following public uproar, and the government cancelled the contracts...
Zimbabwe’s health minister fired over COVID-19 graft scandal
FM
By Farai MutsakaThe Associated Press
Tue., July 7, 2020timer1 min. read
HARARE, Zimbabwe - Zimbabwe’s health minister has been fired for inappropriate conduct after he was accused of illegally awarding a multi-million-dollar contract for COVID-19 medical supplies to a shadowy company that sold the government $28 face masks and other materials at inflated prices.
A statement Tuesday by the chief secretary for President Emmerson Mnangagwa announced the removal of Obediah Moyo.
Moyo last month was charged with criminal abuse of duty as a public officer. Zimbabwe’s anti-corruption agency had arrested him following public uproar, and the government cancelled the contracts...