It was after this, he said, that people said of him that “this guy is corrupt”.
On March 11, 2015, the Eskom board suspended four executives. Koko was one of them. Three left, and only Koko returned. He said his suspension was unjustified and reiterated his lack of prior knowledge to the suspension.
Koko told the commission that the then board chairperson, Zola Tsotsi, was on a mission to get rid of him.
He said he did not fight the issue of his suspension as he was accused of having caused load-shedding by the head of commercial.
“It paralyses you,” he said.
He said this was equivalent to treason.
“The only reason that Mr Tsotsi, I think and that’s my thinking, between now and then, he did not mention other executives, it’s because he wanted to force my name at all costs because he wanted to get rid of me because of how I responded to him,” Koko added.
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