Matshela Koko pleads not guilty
The suspended Eskom executive insists he followed protocol and discussed conflict of interest issue with former Eskom chairman Ben Ngubane
Suspended Eskom executive Matshela Koko has pleaded not guilty to six charges levelled against him by his employer in relation to his failure to declare a conflict of interest‚ saying he had written to and discussed the situation with former Eskom chairman Ben Ngubane. Koko was suspended based on the recommendations of a forensic report after more than R1bn in contracts was awarded to a company‚ Impulse International‚ of which his stepdaughter‚ Koketso Choma‚ was a shareholder through the Mokoni Trust. At the time the contracts were awarded‚ Koko was the head of generation at Eskom‚ a department that worked directly with Impulse. After an initial tussle over the charge sheet‚ proceedings in his disciplinary inquiry finally got under way on Wednesday evening at Megawatt Park. Advocate Frans Barrie SC‚ representing Koko‚ was determined to ensure the charge sheet his client had been presented with in early August had not changed. Business Day has reported that the charge sheet was chan...
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