Parliament’s Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) says it wants the leadership of law enforcement agencies to provide further information on steps taken to hold Eskom and government officials to account.
Former Eskom CEO Andre De Ruyter appeared virtually before SCOPA on Wednesday.
But he refused to provide the name of the ministers alleged to be involved in criminal activity at the power utility, saying it would compromise investigations and expose him to legal challenges.
A number of organisations have called on De Ruyter to identify the people he referred to during a television interview.
The Chairperson of SCOPA Mkhuleko Hlengwa, “Where we have an issue is on the allegations De Ruyter’s made, that if he is correct in what he is saying, we then expect the minister, the advisor, the Hawks and the National Police Commissioner and Eskom to then tell us officially what it is that they did with that information. So that we can be satisfied that the necessary processes have unfolded. From where we are at this point, we do believe that this has happened and that is what is fundamentally worrying.”
SCOPA wants several people to appear before it, to gain more information regarding criminal activities at Eskom, as revealed by its former CEO.
De Ruyter appeared before SCOPA on Wednesday to shed light on allegations he made earlier this year around corruption, criminal cartels and other financial irregularities at the State-Owned Enterprise (SOE).
However, MPs were not satisfied with his answers.
Hlengwa said Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan and Presidential advisor Sydney Mufamadi are first on the list.
