THE Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) which has been caught in the act for refusing to allow student applicants make payment directly through the Federal Government designated remittal accounts has suddenly requests that other agencies under its watch returned their unspent resources as the year draws to a close.
The board’s Head of Public Affairs, Dr Fabian Benjamin said that the board would continue its practice of remitting the constitutionally-mandated proportion of its operational surpluses, in line with extant government’s directive on the remittances.
According to him, it is a known fact that all unutilised funds by Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) should be returned to the public treasury.
He said that the board and public-spirited Nigerians were, therefore, at a loss as to the reasons for the various campaigns of calumny mounted by some individuals who feel that these remittances should not be made.
“The board reiterates that it is not within the powers of MDAs to determine the uses for which the remitted funds are put to.
“Theirs is to comply with extant directive while those given the mandate to manage the national treasury have the responsibility of appropriating and channelling such remittances.
“ This is in the overall interest of the public, to identify areas of need or rather whichever area of the national economy that they perceive to be in most need of resources,” he said.
He added: “ It would be recalled that the humongous remittances are the first in the history of the four-decade-old agency.
“The first landmark remittance was made in 2017 and the feat was repeated in subsequent years, in line with its belief that rules are made to be obeyed and, at any rate, the Board does not believe it should hold onto money that does not belong to it.
Meanwhile JAMB members of staff had earlier called on the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) for immediate prosecution of Prof Is-haq Olarewaju Oloyede over Unremitted N68 billion naira JAMB funds into the Federal Government designated accounts and other alleged financial fraud committed in the institution in the last five years as the Registrar/Chief Executive Officer of JAMB.
JAMB’s members of staff who craved anonymity told
Trojan.com.ng correspondent in Abuja in August this after the announcement of Prof. Is-haq Oloyede’s renewed five years term of office that they were disappointed that President Muhammadu Buhari reappointed Prof. Oloyede, a ‘corrupt fellow’ for another period of five years consecutively.
They said Prof Oloyede reappointment is an error and a serious damage to President Muhammadu Buhari’s anti-graft campaign and to the entire JAMB institution and the nation Nigeria at large.
“The regularisation of admission letters where candidates are pay N10,000.00, N8,500.00 and N5000.00 for data correction or N2,500 per candidate in some instances are never remitted directly into the TSA account as instructed by the Federal Government.
“This is were Prof. Oloyede make more money than the sales of JAMB and UTME forms remitted directly into the federal accounts.
“More worrisome is the fact that he has contracted out JAMB’s staffs’ jobs to consultancy agents, friends and family members as against the extant law who are now the major players and neglected jamb staffs.
“These contracted agents across the 36 states of the federation, the capital territory inclusive come with Point Of Sale (POS) machines with which they carry out their transitions in JAMB offices.
“You can imagine if a million candidates receive admission letters annually and other sundry charges which we have estimated above N68 billion naira in the last five years of his first tenure.
“The question is why was JAMB not be audited throughout the first five years tenure of Prof, Oloyede.
“No more staff benefit during JAMB Exams as was previously the case. Approvals are made for it but the money ends up in his private accounts and that of his cronies.
“He transfers staffs out of their duty post with impunity without paying the designated transfer allowances even when money is voted for it.
“Prof. Oloyede is very wicked to staff”, one of the JAMB member of staff agonized.
Sources revealed to Trojan News that Prof Oloyede has concluded plans to sell the dilapidated Lagos office of the board to himself.
“He has been planning to move Ikoyi office to Ogba in Ikeja. Not only that, he want to buy the office complex for himself through his associates.
“This is an office of about six hecters of land. He has been searching for an office complex at Ikeja to move the Lagos staff to, within the shortest possible time.
“This is what Prof Oloyede planned to accomplished in second coming”, the sources revealed.
Bellow is an evidence of non-remittance of JAMB financial transactions directly to the TSA accounts as directed by the Federal Government.
