N500,000 Fraud: 2 JAMB Staff Nabbed for Extorting UTME Candidates
- Two employees of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board have been paraded for fraudulent activities
- The staff were said to have extorted UTME candidates to help facilitate their admission
- The board warned parents and candidates to desist from giving anyone money under the guise of helping to secure admission
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A report by VON indicates that the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has paraded two of its staff for extorting potential Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) candidates.
The affected staff, Andy Okoro, an officer in JAMB’s Delta state office had collected the sum of N500,000 from four candidates’ parents with the promise to help them secure university admission.
According to Okoro, he paid his colleague Gambo Ibrahim Abba, a level 8 officer at JAMB headquarters N180,000 to help facilitate their admission.
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The level 12 officer speaking to journalists said he engaged in the fraudulent activity due to economic hardship.
The scam was later exposed when one of the parents petitioned JAMB on Okoro’s activities.
Drama later ensued when Gambo, who had claimed he was into fish business with Okoro, admitted that his involvement in the extortion might not be ordinary.
Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, JAMB registrar in reaction to the incident expressed surprise that the affected staff defied the board’s zero tolerance for corruption,
While vowing to ensure the suspects face the full wrath of the law, Oloyede called on parents and candidates not to allow anyone to collect money from them in the guise of helping them to secure admission to their chosen institution.
Meanwhile, Legit.ng reported that JAMB said it has concluded all arrangements to begin the sale of 2021/2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) and Direct Entry (DE) registration forms.
The board broke the news in its weekly bulletin on Monday, March 15. It was gathered that the board said official dates for the commencement of the sale of both forms and the conduct of the examinations would be announced not later than March 24.
The examination board said the 2021 exercise was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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