Ramaphosa being protected by Glencore
Koko was back at the commission on Tuesday.
"Chair, this is my sixth time at the commission, and I
must tell you that for the very first time I am feeling aggrieved because after
the six occasion I have not told my story.
“I have submitted an affidavit to the commission, I was told
on the first day that I must take it as read but by the way things are going, I
don't even think my counsel will be given an opportunity to cross-examine me.
"I am really tired of people listening to gossip and
ignoring documentary evidence that is there. One of the things I will force you
to do today chair is to work out of the documents and not from gossip,"
Koko told the commission.
He said it was important that the commission looks at a hardship
notice that was submitted by Optimum Coal Mine and Glencore in July 2013, which
was followed by an arbitration agreement in December 2013.
Koko maintained that witnesses have lied to the commission.
"It cannot be that witnesses come here to the
commission to mislead you and get away with murder. I come here to assist you
to get to the truth but there are witnesses who come here with the intention to
mislead you, so you don't get to the truth. I want to take you to task and say
there must be recourse for witnesses who have mislead you deliberately,"
he added.
Koko said Glencore's Clinton Ephron is one of the witnesses
who deliberately lied to the commission alongside former Eskom's head of legal
Suzanne Daniels.
"Mr Ephron never submits in this commission statements
under oath, we get pushed and harassed to present statements to this commission
under oath and we do so because we understand why and we do this out of
respect, but Mr Ephron didn't do that and lied deliberately.
"He comes here and says Mr Ramaphosa was never the
chairperson of Optimum Coal Mine, when I heard him say that I knew he was lying
because he was the CEO of Optimum when Ramaphosa was the chairperson, he cannot
forget his boss.
“He then submits another statement to the commission and
says he made a mistake because he was misled by other things, this cannot be
chair. Mr Ephron lied to protect his business associate Mr Ramaphosa,"
said Koko
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