NASS threatens to stop JAMB’s allocation, questions spending

NASS threatens JAMB

The 10th National Assembly Joint Committee on Finance yesterday threatened to stop the Federal Government’s grant to the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, (JAMB), in the 2025 Budget proposal.

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The position of the committee was informed by the presentation made by JAMB Registrar, Prof. Is’haq Oloyede, who appeared before the Joint Committee of the Senate and House of Representatives to defend the agency’s 2025 Budget proposal.

Giving a breakdown of the performance of the JAMB’s 2024 budget, Oloyede said the agency remitted ₦4bn to the Consolidated Revenue Fund, while it got a grant of ₦6bn from the Federal Government.

This did not go down well with the committee, as members, Abiodun Faleke and Senator Adams Oshiomhole questioned why a self-funding agency should be getting allocations from the Federal Government.

Faleke, who is the Chairman, House Committee on Finance, asked: “You remitted ₦4bn and got ₦6bn from the Federal Government. Why not keep the ₦4bn, and we stop the Government from funding JAMB”.

“You spent ₦1.1bn on meals and refreshments. Are you being freely fed by the government? What this means is that you are spending the money you generate from poor students, many of them orphans. You also spent ₦850m on security, cleaning and fumigation in 2024. What did you fumigate? Is it mosquitoes that took all this money”, Oshiomhole queried.

The former Edo State Governor also slammed JAMB for spending ₦600m on local travels even as he called on Oloyede to justify the N6.5bn on local training.

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