“Uncle, Uncle, Uncle… Godfrey agenze.” “Sorry, Bernabas. The young man has left us.”

Those words from Godfrey’s fiancé and his doctor, the Liver Specialist doctor respectively, still echo in my mind.

They have refused to fade. They replay each time I close my eyes; sharp, cold, unrelenting. I hear them when I walk into the office, when I glance at his desk, when I imagine his calm knock on my door, saying, “Bernabas, we need to review the new proposal.”

At 1:46 a.m. on Thursday, 16th October 2025, my world came to a standstill. My nephew, my son in every sense, Godfrey Ssenyonjo, breathed his last moments just as he arrived at Mulago Hospital. Just 33 years old. A life so steady, so brilliant, so disciplined; cut short by what doctors clinically called acute hepatitis B, leading to liver cirrhosis. READ MORE

It began, as most disasters do, with silence. A mid-sized local bank’s board meeting ended early that day. The CEO had told the board that “IT reported having fully patched the system,” and everyone nodded, relieved. No one asked which system or what was patched.

Weeks later, the same board would hold an emergency session after a ransomware attack froze all accounts for 36 hours. The problem wasn’t the hacker. It was the silence in that room.

Boards often treat cybersecurity as an operational nuisance; a line item, a compliance checkbox, something the “tech guys” handle. But governance, not gadgets, defines resilience. The first breach always happens in the boardroom when leaders choose comfort over comprehension.

If you sit on a board and cannot explain the difference between a vulnerability and a threat vector, you are the threat vector. READ MORE

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