The Senate, on Wednesday, resolved to investigate the low remittance by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) into the federation account before 2016.

The resolution was sequel to the adoption of a motion under matter of urgent public importance, moved by Sen. Dino Melaye.

Moving the motion, Melaye said that JAMB before 2016 paid into the federation account a meagre N50 million as revenue generated from the University and Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME).

He said the revenue increased to five billion naira in 2016 and N7.8 billion in 2017.

The senator, however, expressed concern why the revenue remitted by JAMB in the past had been low.

“Since JAMB can remit seven billion naira in one month, we must work on relevant agencies as the National Examination Council (NECO) and the West African Examination Council (WAEC) to generate more revenue.

“There is the need for the Senate Committee to effectively carry out its oversight function with a view to finding out what went wrong in the past and block all the leakages in the agencies,’’ Melaye said.

Also, the Senate Leader, Sen. Ahmed Lawan said, “something was amiss and we need to find out what happened in the past and why there was a sudden increase in remittances’’.

In his remarks, the President of the Senate, Dr Bukola Saraki, directed the Senate Committee on Education to investigate the matter and educate the Senate on reasons for the increased remittances.

Saraki stressed the need to know what action had been taken to get those people, who were there in the past to explain what happened,’’ Saraki said. (NAN)

no wahala...simply check the

forms sold and the number of registered candidates that sat for the exams in 2016
X
the amount per form

= expected remittances

LESS:

Actual amount remitted ..

Invite EFCC for a forensic audit

When will the useless senate investigate their own constituency allowances so that we can know exactly what is done with it in their various constituencies? Of all the millions some wud execute public toilets as projects and show it off in the media as if they have done so much.

That hypocrite Shehu Sani and senseless Ben Bruce are just like all the other dishonorable thieves? Can they justify the huge amount of money they receive?

Thieves investigating thieves. What honour or integrity do they have left in them to investigate.

It ended up in private pockets.

When we are battling to expunge dullness and incompetence from the federal level, this clown is moving motion for the auditing of jamb. I wonder how many senators kids buy jamb forms and besides that, aren't you lames the same ducks who've been biting off large chunks from these agencies?

wat do u expect when PDTHIEF are in power.Buhari don gather reaserve dis thief want to come back and steal again.God punish pdthief and dia supporters