How top JAMB officials stole billions and blamed snakes, fire vanguardngr.com vanguardnews
The earth-shaking report, which Sunday Vanguard sighted last night, chronicled how each of the key suspects looted the proceeds of cards sold, how they singly or in connivance with other parties, looted the proceeds and shortchanged the govern-ment in the process.
In Nasarawa State for instance, the state JAMB Coordinator, whose name was given as Mr. Tanko, claimed that no fewer than 24,037 out of 24,882 e-cards he collected for sale to candidates were destroyed by fire following an accident he was involved in along the Lafia-Akwanga Road, thereby left with a paltry of 845 which he sold at the rate of N1000 each and the expected revenue of N854,000 remitted to JAMB.
“Contrary to the state coordinator’s submission, forensic evidence obtained from the IT Unit of JAMB showed that the said burnt cards were sold and utilized by candidates within Nasarawa State and its environs,” the EFCC said in its report. In Benue State, the state coordinator, whose name was given as Philomena, collected a total of 124,180 cards amounting to N124,180,000 but after selling them, she merely remitted N88, 700,000 leaving a balance of over N35 million, which she never paid to JAMB.The Benue office of JAMB under her is said to have also collected another batch of 10200 change of course cards sold at N2500 each, out of which they sold 3,210. They remitted N8.
In Edo State, two suspects, Ogunsola and Imoukhuede, are to account for over N26 million shortfall from both e-cards and change of course cards sold under their supervision. More challenging is the situation in the Kano State JAMB office where the sum of N20 million cannot be accounted for after the sale of both e-cards and change of course cards.“In a bid to cover the missing revenue, an officer in the office, deliberately printed cardboards and packaged them neatly in a carton as JAMB normally does and took them to the bank for safe-keeping.
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