A mystery snake is said to have
sneaked into the accounts office of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation
Board, JAMB, in Makurdi, the Benue State capital and made away with N36 million
cash.
Before now, JAMB candidates
purchased scratch cards from JAMB state offices and other designated centers,
to gain access to the Board’s website for either registration or to check their
admission status but the reforms introduced by JAMB registrar, Prof. Ishaq
Oloyede, recommended an end to the use of scratch cards.
A team of auditors was dispatched
to different state offices of JAMB to take inventory of the sold and unsold
scratch cards and recover whatever money that might have either been generated
or mismanaged during the period of the sale of scratch cards.
On their visit to Makurdi office
of JAMB, a sales clerk, Philomina Chieshe, told JAMB registrar and his team
that she could not account for N36 million she made in previous years before
the abolition of scratch cards.
In the course of interrogation,
Philomena confessed that it was her housemaid that connived with another JAMB
staff, Joan Asen, to “spiritually” steal the money from the vault in the
accounts office.
She said: “I was one of the four
sales clerks attached to JAMB office in Makurdi. My responsibility was to sell
scratch cards to candidates and not involved in handling the revenues. It was
the responsibility of Joan Asen and my other senior colleagues. I only remit
money when am done selling the cards.
“Few months ago, there was issue
of fraud in the Makurdi office. Auditors were sent from Abuja to carefully flip
the record books of the office, to perhaps, ascertain the current state of
affairs.
“The state Coordinator, Obilo,
was not around when the audit team came. But in the course of the audit, N36
million was discovered to have been missing from the account. An investigation
was launched. In the course of the investigation, it was discovered that Joan
Asen, who is account staff and a lady outside JAMB have connived to steal the
money.”
Philomina in her confessional
statement said that Joan Asen and her accomplices confessed that they have been
stealing the money “spiritually” through a mysterious snake that always sneak
into the office to swallow the money from the vault.
According to her “It was a
mystery to me too. I have been saving the money in the bank, but I found it
difficult to account for it. So I started saving it in a vault in the office.
But each time I open the vault, I will find nothing. I became worried and
surprised how the millions of Naira could be disappearing from the vault. I
began to interrogate everybody in the house and office, and no one could agree
on what might have happened to the money. I continued to press until my
housemaid confessed. She said that the money disappeared “spiritually”. She
said that a “mysterious snake” sneaked into the house and swallowed the money
in the vault.”
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ReplyDeleteshe is an intelligent person, leave her alone ,is 36m up to the sum of money that politicians in the state have stole , is 36m up to the money that the governor of the state used in buying wheel barrows , this a change gov that what we think cannot happen it is happening ,
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