{"id":42087,"date":"2021-06-17T18:37:13","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T16:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/?p=42087"},"modified":"2021-06-17T16:50:32","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T14:50:32","slug":"ex-health-minister-obadiah-moyo-indicted-to-high-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/ex-health-minister-obadiah-moyo-indicted-to-high-court","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Health Minister Obadiah Moyo Indicted To High Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\">Zimbabwe<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Former Health and Child Care minister Dr Obadiah Moyo has been indicted to the High Court for trial on criminal abuse of office charges.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutor Garudzo Ziyadhuma told the court that Moyo\u2019s trial will kick off on September 6. Ziyadhuma said:<\/p>\n<p><b>_We are applying that the accused be indicted to the High Court for trial on September 6 this year after the completion of documents processing._<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The State alleges that Moyo influenced the awarding of a US$60 million tender to Drax International, which is headquartered in the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n<p>The tender was concluded without the Procurement Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe\u2019s approval.<\/p>\n<p>Moyo allegedly influenced the awarding of the tender to Drax International, which sold COVID-19 drugs and personal protective equipment to the government at inflated prices.<\/p>\n<p>President Emerson Mnangagwa fired Moyo last year over the charges.<\/p>\n<p><b>More: Pindula News; NewsDay<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. Former Health and Child Care minister Dr Obadiah Moyo has been indicted to the High Court for trial on criminal abuse of office charges. Prosecutor Garudzo Ziyadhuma told the court that Moyo\u2019s trial will kick off on September 6. Ziyadhuma said: _We are applying that the accused be indicted to the High [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":42086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8,35,12,15],"tags":[1493,2189,5170,5171,19],"class_list":{"0":"post-42087","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-head-lines","9":"category-homepage-english","10":"category-policy","11":"category-twitter","12":"tag-africa-press","13":"tag-africa-press-zimbabwe-2","14":"tag-dr-obadiah-moyo","15":"tag-drax-sagl-international","16":"tag-zimbabwe"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ex-Health Minister Obadiah Moyo Indicted To High Court - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former Health and Child Care minister Dr Obadiah Moyo has been indicted to the High Court for trial on criminal abuse of ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/ex-health-minister-obadiah-moyo-indicted-to-high-court\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ex-Health Minister Obadiah Moyo Indicted To High Court\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Former Health and Child Care minister Dr Obadiah Moyo has been indicted to the High Court for trial on criminal abuse of ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/ex-health-minister-obadiah-moyo-indicted-to-high-court\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-06-17T16:37:13+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-06-17T14:50:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2021\/06\/img-60cb610f4bf0a.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"418\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/ex-health-minister-obadiah-moyo-indicted-to-high-court\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/ex-health-minister-obadiah-moyo-indicted-to-high-court\",\"name\":\"Ex-Health Minister Obadiah Moyo Indicted To High Court - 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