This case is challenging better than what we have ever handled. Support me and I take it up, love, I say. “Ok, if you want the experience, take it up. No calling me at night. I will not be part of the team. You will spend all Sundays at home, as usual”, she says to which I reply in affirmative. “Ok, you can take up the case” comes the go-ahead. With her approval secured, all is set. I immediately arrange a meeting with the prospect in Kampala to agree on the engagement terms and commence. Continued from part 1. Having…
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The bad thing with investigations is that they are addictive like drugs. The more cases you investigate, the more you love the adrenaline that comes with it. So, when a client called me with an opportunity to take up a case of cybercrime in Kenya’s capital Nairobi, I jumped on the challenge with both hands. But I had a huddle to jump – getting my co-directors to support to take on the case. Finally, Kenya has knocked on the door. A bank wants me to take up a case there. What do you think? I said to my co-director. “It…
The state of #Covid19 in East Africa: cases on the rise
CAPTION: A newspaper seller wears a mask as a preventive measure against the Covid-19 Coronavirus on a empty street in Kigali on March 22, 2020 after the government suspended all unnecessary movements for two weeks to curb the spread of the virus. PHOTO | SIMON WOHLFAHRT | AFP Kampala 3rd April 2020. The total number of positive coronavirus cases in Uganda now stands at 48. This follows three new cases – all imported. Compared to other East African countries, Uganda is third in terms of the registered cases. In South Sudan, two people have already succumbed to the virus. South…