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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is set
to arraign some officials for allegedly diverting nearly N100m belonging to the
Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board.
Among the officials to be arraigned are Philomina
Chieshe of the Makurdi office of JAMB who claimed that a snake swallowed N36m
which was part of the proceeds of the sale of scratch cards and her
coordinator, Mr. Samuel Umoru, who, according to Chieshe, instructed her to divert the funds.
Others to be arraigned include Tanko Labaran, the
clerk in Nasarawa State office of JAMB who could not account for scratch cards
worth N23m; and the officer in charge of the Kano office of the board, Yakubu
Jakada, for his inability to account for e-facilities cards valued at N20m sold
through an agent in one of the banks.
Some officials of the Gombe office are also expected
to be arraigned.
According to a source at the EFCC plans have been
concludbe edfor them to arraigned soon.
The source explained that before the introduction of
Treasury Single Accounts, the practice was that JAMB officials kept the
proceeds of the sale of cards in unauthorised bank accounts which led to the
loss of billions of naira.
The Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun, had said
JAMB, for the first time, remitted N5bn to the government’s coffers with a
promise to pay the balance of N3bn compared to maximum N3m remitted yearly in
the last 40 years.
