An FCT High Court in Maitama yesterday remanded one Philomina Chieshe and five other Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board officials over their involvement in the disappearance of N35m from the sale of JAMB e-cards in Benue State.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) alleged that Chieshe, a sales clerk with JAMB, told an investigative panel that she could not account for the money she made in previous years before the board stopped the sale of scratch cards.
She reportedly claimed that the money was swallowed by a snake in Makurdi, Benue State. Cheishe reportedly told the panel that her housemaid had connived with another JAMB employee to, “spiritually,” through a snake, steal the money from the vault in the accounts office.
She was arraigned yesterday alongside Samuel Umoru, Yakubu Jekada, Daniel Agbo, Priscilla Ogunsola and Aliyu Yakubu on eight counts bordering on refusal to account for the board’s money between 2014 and 2016. They however pleaded not guilty.
Justice Peter Afen thereafter ordered them remanded in the custody of the EFCC, and adjourned the case until June 3.
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