Koko's testimony at ESKOM inquiry

I expect this guy to break down in tears under cross-examination and confess to everything.
 
ngwe23 said:
I expect this guy to break down in tears under cross-examination and confess to everything.
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At least he is a tad more eloquent than Singh. I was shocked to listen to Singh. The CFO of a huge SOE and he spoke like someone with zero education and even less experience.
 
What's the point of this inquiry? Will all these lying and corrupt lot be held to account? They seem to think not which is why they lie through the questioning.

Edit: the entire thing merits its own thread I think instead of one each time a new official testfies
 
R13... said:
What's the point of this inquiry? Will all these lying and corrupt lot be held to account? They seem to think not which is why they lie through the questioning.

Edit: the entire thing merits its own thread I think instead of one each time a new official testfies
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Nobody will see so much as 1 minute behind bars. These enquiries are just window dressing so some can say before the 2019 elections, "we dealt with corruption".
 
blunomore said:
At least he is a tad more eloquent than Singh. I was shocked to listen to Singh. The CFO of a huge SOE and he spoke like someone with zero education and even less experience.
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I am pretty sure he was advised to speak as little and to be as obfuscating as possible.
 
R13... said:
What's the point of this inquiry? Will all these lying and corrupt lot be held to account? They seem to think not which is why they lie through the questioning.

Edit: the entire thing merits its own thread I think instead of one each time a new official testfies
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I'm more interested in the fact that since their statements are under oath, if they're caught lying, will they be charged with perjury at the very least?

I mean that woman who lied about her missing baby just got 5 years today, and that's a far smaller thing than what these scumbags are lying about...
 
blunomore said:
At least he is a tad more eloquent than Singh. I was shocked to listen to Singh. The CFO of a huge SOE and he spoke like someone with zero education and even less experience.
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I don't think I would be so kind. He's referring to himself in the 3rd person, basically another Cloudy...
 
Looks like the plan is to just lie and deny everything and when presented with evidence to claim not to believe the evidence. That means the inquiry has no legal basis to charge them else they'd evade instead of risking perjury charges
 
blunomore said:
At least he is a tad more eloquent than Singh.
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He is more eloquent (though no more credible), because his defence is different. Instead of 'didn't see anything', he says 'its all a conspiracy' to frame him: https://www.fin24.com/Economy/Eskom/live-no-resignation-from-koko-yet-eskominquiry-20180124

14:13
Eskom executive Matshela Koko opened up about the McKinsey-Trillian contract at the Eskom Inquiry on Wednesday afternoon.

“I have been called a thief by people I trust, by people I still trust. I have been called a thief by Suzanne Daniels who I believe is an extremely competent lawyer. I will not call her names,” he said.

Koko then went to present the situation surrounding the McKinsey-Trillian contract, referring to a letter from Daniels recommending Eskom pay McKinsey and its BEE partner (Trillian) R460m.

“What the committee will have to deal with, is Ms Daniels coming here saying Koko is a thief because of the Trillian transaction.” Referring to himself in the third person, he said: “Koko puts forward a recommendation from Daniels to pay McKinsey R460m.”

Daniels who was approached by Fin24 for response this week, said that she stands by her testimony to Parliament. “Suffice it to say, I stand by my testimony in Parliament insofar as it pertains to Matshela Koko. I will reserve further comment," she said.

Koko also hit out at former non-executive board member Venete Klein. In his written submission Koko explains that Klein tried to put him in a “bad light” because of resentment she holds against Koko for not helping her husband to procure a project management contract for his company.
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In his opening address to the portfolio committee on public enterprises, Eskom executive Matshela Koko shared that he made efforts to squash corruption at the power utility.

“I have been working for Eskom for 23 years. My association with Eskom is over 31 years. Eskom took me to high school, took me to university. I have only worked for Eskom… My blood is Eskom blue.”

After being appointed to executive level in November 2014, by then CEO Tshediso Matona. Three months later (March 2015) he was suspended for a period of four months, he recalled.

The reason given that power delivery was compromised. “I was suspended because the board thought that me and my colleagues were sabotaging the country because of load-shedding.”

Koko said that these reasons were not truthful. “I told the board the reasons they are giving me, are not what I am being suspended… I knew why I was being suspended. I was being suspended for refusing to take unlawful instructions from the chairman at the time Zola Tsotsi.”
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Koko is whining about the procedural incorrectness of his suspension yet as executive for generation he was suspending power station managers by whatsapp with no regard for HR processes.
 
Mike Hoxbig said:
I don't think I would be so kind. He's referring to himself in the 3rd person, basically another Cloudy...
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Perhaps trying to psychologically distance himself from the whole thing?

blunomore said:
The CFO of a huge SOE and he spoke like someone with zero education and even less experience.
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Guessing no corporate veterans wanted to touch this...beggars can't be choosers.
 
ngwe23 said:
A mistake a lot of people make. Assuming that people they don't like are dumb.
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Actually referring to oneself in the 3rd person constantly whilst talking indicates arrogance and even a level of narcissism.. not stupidity.
 
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