The Registrar, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, has said the Board lost over N10 million in 2020.
Oloyede told newsmen at the JAMB’s headquarters yesterday, in Abuja, that the fraudsters penetrated the Board’s payment portal for ad-hoc staff. He said that the money, which was meant to pay JAMB Adhoc staff from the 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, (UTME), was hijacked by the suspected fraudsters.
Oloyede, however, said that the Board investigated the illegality, tracked and finally apprehended 10 of the suspects in Kaduna, Nasarawa and Abuja.
Oloyede reiterated the Board’s readiness to fight corrupt practices in its system, adding that some of the illegalities had prompted changes in the board’s mode of operations.
One of the 10 apprehended suspects, Sa’idu Zubairu, said that he got the code for the site through his friend (presently at large) and indulged others.
All suspects apprehended by the Board had been handed over to security agents for further investigations.
