The witness says the board came to the conclusion that Lucky Montana deliberately misled it because he wanted it to approve tenders that were seriously flawed.
Former chairperson of the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa Popo Molefe on Thursday told the commission of inquiry into state capture that the agency’s former CEO, Lucky Montana, misled the board and withheld critical information from it, which was a concern.
Though Montana and his team of executives gave a presentation to the board, the former CEO failed to furnish it with the contracts it had requested. He said what was particularly “strange” for him was that Montana did not seem to have an understanding of the power relations between himself as CEO and the board as the accounting authority.
On 27 November 2014, the board held its first extensive meeting where “urgent decisions” had to be made with regards to the modernisation programme, Molefe said.
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