The
Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has reportedly discovered a new
fraud amounting to N83m in five states.
The
states under investigation by the exam body include Kano, Edo, Kogi, Gombe and
Plateau.
The
development is coming few days after Philomina Chieshe, a JAMB sales clerk
in Benue state, said a snake mysteriously swallowed N36m proceeds
from the sales of scratch cards.
The
board is said to be investigating N31m misappropriated revenue in Edo and N20m
in Kano, according to PUNCH.
It
is also investigating some officials in Plateau over N15m and Gombe over N10m
mismanaged funds.
Kogi
state is also said to have been nailed for mismanaging N7m.
Ishaq
Oloyode (pictured), registrar of the board, has vowed that the exam body would
investigate the allegations and prosecute any of its officials found culpable.
He
spoke through Fabian Benjamin, JAMB spokesman.
“We
will monitor with careful scrutiny how workers handled public funds. We are
trying to block all leakages and loopholes,” Benjamin told PUNCH.
Labaran
Tanko, a JAMB official in Nasarawa, is said to be undergoing investigation over
a suspected fraud involving N26 million.
Tanko
had reportedly said the N26m, which was the worth of unsold unified tertiary
matriculation examination (UTME) scratch cards, got burnt in his car during an
accident he was involved in while on his way to remit the cards at the JAMB
office in Abuja.
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