Reports just received indicate that Health and Child Care Minister Obadiah Moyo has been arrested by the Zimbabwe Anti Corruption Commission.

Moyo’s arrest was imminent after he snubbed a summon to appear before the Commission on Tuesday.

Moyo was summoned by the commission over a multi million dollar deal by his Ministry which was corruply awarded to Drax Sagl, a company that was allegedly not ‘fit and proper’ for the deal, and accused of inflating prices.

Zacc regarded Moyo as a person of interest following his alleged involvement in the murky deal. ZACC summoned Moyo with a possibility of an immediate arrest after completing evaluation of the statement he submitted last week.

“He was asked to report at 12 midday but he requested postponement to 4pm citing that he was attending cabinet meeting which were reasonable grounds.

“He however failed to turn up and did not explain his absence,” Sources said.

Moyo’s arrest follows that of Natpharm chief executive Florah Sifeku and other officials who were also asked to submit similar reports to ZACC last week.

Moyo is alleged to have given a greenlight to the award the contract to Drax International with full knowledge that it had failed security checks twice.

It is further alleged that he recommended Drax’s capacity and untainted record to Natpharm chief executive Florah Sifeku.