NATIONAL NEWS - Former acting Eskom CEO Matshela Koko says he's always been a loyal employee of the organisation and that he was falsely suspended in 2015 over load shedding.
He has started testifying before Parliament's inquiry into state capture at the utility on Tuesday afternoon.
“For those who know me, I always say my blood is Eksom blue.”
He insists the real reason he was suspended in 2015, was because he refused to heed to a demand by former Eskom board chair Zola Tsotsi to enter into a coal deal worth R69 million, without a contract.
“Mr [Zethembe] Khoza and Ms [Suzanne] Daniels, I met them in a hotel in Midrand and they offered me a separation package. They offered me R4.9 million to walk away.”
'My blood is Eskom blue'
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Posted on: 16:02 Wed, 24 January 2018
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