Another JAMB official has made a rather shocking claim on why N600k is suddenly missing from the vaults.

According to a report by The Nation, it was revelations galore at the just concluded sitting of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) administrative panel on financial management as officials sought to defend their handling of public funds.

Nine officials of the board, including one from Benue where a ‘mystery snake’ allegedly swallowed N36million cash, were probed and subsequently indicted by the administrative panel.

Another JAMB official in Yobe State told the panel that he could not lay his hands on tellers, receipts and invoices of over N600, 000 put in his care following an attack by the terror sect, Boko Haram.

Yet another official from the Kogi office of JAMB said he gave out the N7million in his care as loans to his colleagues who were in need of money to settle personal problems.

He confessed that he was also a beneficiary of the ‘loans.’

But the panel was not amused by the defence put on by the officials.

All nine were indicted for stealing JAMB funds. The panel thus recommended that they be sacked and the recommendation was forwarded to the Federal Ministry of Education which oversees JAMB.

The stolen fund was part of the payment made by candidates for registration of scratch cards.

Some of the indicted officials are JAMB state coordinators.

Sources said that, “The nine officials would have been sacked outright but for civil service rules that stipulate that such matters should go through due process.

”All of them are under interdiction. They have appeared before a disciplinary committee. A report has been written to the higher authority. If that report is approved, they will be dismissed and handed to the...

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