Biswick Tiyamalu Kaswaswa, who was born in 1981, excelled at school and in his tertiary education. While at college, he was recruited by Deloitte Malawi — a member of a leading international partnership of chartered accountants. After rapid progression as an audit clerk, he completed his Association of Certified Chartered Accountants UK board exams in record time and was admitted as a professional chartered accountant in 2006.
He was transferred to Deloitte Barbados, where he honed his auditing skills between 2007 and 2011, whereupon he returned to Malawi. He worked in various jobs, while teaching undergraduate students accounting part time.
In June 2018, he was recruited by South Sudanese energy company Trinity Energy to serve as their financial manager working in their head office in Juba. He was alarmed to find that, in contrast to the standards of good governance that he had been taught, the company operated its network of filling stations on a mainly cash basis, with thousands of South Sudanese pounds and US dollars kept in sacks.
This cash was collected and exchanged, without any controls, checks or balances, and with no systems to ensure the control and reconciliation of stocks of fuel with cash received, or the use of the banking system to ensure safekeeping and the proper authorisation of expenditures and disbursements.
He reported his concerns to the board of directors. They pretended to share his concern, but as soon as he tried to implement changes in the way...
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