First-quarter of 2021.
It was the first 3 months of our lives together. The first was solely for merry making as we enjoyed our first month together as husband and wife. We had a lot fun together in the western part of the country.
On February 6th we had to return to Accra. Honey moon was over, Selestine resumes work on the Monday, 8th February. I had still not made a decision on which firm to join. I was making money from private consultation at the moment. I was in no rush to jump right back into the corporate world. I was still scared and had not healed yet. I needed a little more time.
Selestine on the other hand resumed work and had good news to welcome her. She had been promoted to head of financial Intelligence; Cyber crime unit. It was a long over due promotion that kept passing her by because of corporate politics, but her timely intervention with regards to my case gave them no choice. It was a big case which was closely followed by the media. Her promotion was a way of the team appreciation her for her efforts and finally rewarding her for her hard work.
March 2021, I got an offer as a private consultant. It was a 30k one month offer. It was a highly sensitive audit that needed to be carry out by EOCO on a CEO in one of the Universal Banks in the country.
It was an offer my wife helped me secure. They needed an expert and the best mind to lead their team. They wanted an unbiased outcome so decided to outsource the team lead for the investigations.
It was an interesting one month of audit and investigations.
I must confess, it was one of the difficult audits I had carried out in my professional life. The CEO was very good at covering his tracks. He had stole about 500m cedis from the bank though the use of 3rd party agents.
These 3rd party institutions with his help secured loan facilities to the tenure of 500m and were now reflecting heavily on the records of the bank as Non Performing Loans.
As I said, he was very good at covering his tracks; he used the 3rd party companies in order to get the monies which he later channeled into his off shore accounts.
The audit took a lot of digging and I had to step on the toes of certain high profile persons along the line. He had a lot of high profile people internally and externally who helped in the ploy.
At the end of the 1st quarter, I made the headlines again. Leading a team to uncover such a high level case of fraud and financial loss to the bank.
Right in the middle of April, the second quarter of the year, I got an unexpected recognition and offer....