A young loans officer, slightly built, always neatly dressed, was outperforming everyone. His loan book was growing at a pace that made management proud and uncomfortable at the same time. The numbers looked clean, repayments, at least on paper, and …
It started quietly on a Thursday evening. A mid-sized private hospital, known for its efficient outpatient services, reported nothing unusual. Systems were running, patients were being attended to, and bills were being issued. But somewhere outside the hospital walls, a …
How many of you have approved something in the last 30 days, not because you were fully convinced but because it looked normal? Take a moment. Be honest with yourself. Because that is exactly how fraud begins, not with criminals …
It started as a reconciliation gap that refused to behave. Not large enough to trigger panic, but not small enough to ignore. A mid-tier institution in Kampala noticed that supplier payments cleared cleanly in the system, yet the supporting trail …
Last year, during a routine advisory assignment, I walked into a SACCO that believed it had strong cybersecurity. The board had approved a budget for antivirus software. Staff attended annual security training. The IT manager proudly showed me a firewall …
The early morning storm. On 12th September 2023, a sudden downpour turned Kampala Road into a river. While taxi drivers cursed and boda riders fought for shelter, a quiet disaster unfolded in the basement of a city-centre insurance company. Their …
Dear Assurance Manager, Let me pull back the curtain on a real case. A financial institution processed over 300 mobile money withdrawals from dormant accounts within 48 hours. Each withdrawal was small enough to fly under the manual threshold radar. …
March 2025, Western Uganda. An accountant at a private university sat nervously across from our team at Summit Consulting Ltd. He had just been suspended after UGX 320 million “disappeared” from the student bursary fund. No break-ins. No armed robbery. …
Setting: A dusty, humming office in Lira District. A procurement officer leans over her computer and clicks “Shift + Delete.” No Recycle Bin. No trace. She sighs with relief. That was the doctored invoice. Gone forever. Or so she thought. …
It all starts with a compromise It always begins with a password. In June 2024, a procurement officer at a large local firm used the same password, Brenda@2020, across her Gmail, Zoom, and company ERP. She thought no one would …
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