8:05 AM, Floor 50The Port Harcourt audit ended on Thursday with no findings.Elma stared at the final line of Mrs. Okafor’s email until the words stopped swimming. _No material weaknesses identified. No management letter points. Overall assessment: Strong._She read it again. Then a third time.No findings.The war room was quiet in a good way. The kind of quiet that usually only happened at 3 AM when everyone else had gone home and it was just her, cold coffee, and a spreadsheet that wouldn’t balance.But it was 8:05 AM. And no one was panicking.No fire drills. No urgent calls from Legal. No James bursting in with “We have a problem” written all over his face.Linda walked in at 8:22 AM carrying two green teas and a printout. She set one in front of Elma and didn’t say anything for five full seconds. That was Linda’s version of a celebration.“The signed opinion letter came in,” Linda finally said. “Clean. Not a single recommendation. Mrs. Okafor said it’s the strongest control e
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