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JOHANNESBURG - President Cyril Ramaphosa has called on former Eskom Group CEO Andre de Ruyter to approach law enforcement agencies on the corruption at the power utility. The president said he was disappointed and concerned about the revelations of the former Eskom executive on the problems besieging the power utility.
Ramaphosa had also dismissed De Ruyter’s comments that some alleged corrupt minister had the backing of the Cabinet. He has expressed disappointment in the failure of former Eskom CEO Andre De Ruyter to report corruption at the power utility.
He asserts that he has complete faith in law enforcement officials and that they are capable of conducting very thorough investigations. The president claims that the former Eskom executive missed a golden opportunity to expose corruption.
“In his case, it is a missed opportunity and I also call on him to come forward to the institutions and report whatever he knows so that the investigative process can then commence. So that all of us are then better informed. Without doing so, we are in a world of rumours, hearsay and then we start looking at each other with a great deal of suspicion. Go to the institutions that investigate and believe in me those institutions can be very thorough.”
De Ruyter left the power utility with immediate effect after alleging that a Cabinet minister wanted a few comrades to benefit from ill-gotten gains.
Ramaphosa says there is no corrupt minister that has the backing of the cabinet on nefarious wrongdoings.