What looks like an admission racket at the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board has been burst as two employees of the institution have been arrested.
The duo collected N500,000 from some parents, promising to get their children admission.
Apart from the fact that the chaps have been arrested, JAMB’S Registrar, Ishaq Oloyede, said such a racket could no more work with the institution’s system.
He said: “The admission exercise into tertiary institutions has been automated, therefore anybody working in JAMB or anybody who has good calculation, who knows what admission process is, can predict who can be admitted because it has been automated.
“What is happening now is that people know those that will be admitted, because they know by the automation this person could be admitted, and they now go and be extorting the parents of those that have already been slated for admission.
“We need to let the public know that there is no halfway to admission, nobody should bribe or give any amount to anybody whether they are JAMB staff or they are not JAMB staff. Anybody who solicit money from any parent, the parent should inform the Board.”
te JAMB’s office, confessed to collecting N500,000 from four candidates’ parents, out of which he paid N180,000 to another colleague, a level 8 officer, to help facilitate their admissions.
But the issue came to the public domain when one of the parents in Delta State petitioned JAMB on the level 12 officer’s activities, a move that prompted the organisation to open up an investigation into the issue.
The indicted officer told journalists at JAMB headquarters on Monday evening in Abuja that he engaged in the fraudulent act because of economic hardship.
But a mild drama, however, ensued when his accomplice in level 8 who had earlier claimed he was into fish business with the level 12 officer, later admitted that his involvement in the act might not be “ordinary.”
The level 8 officer at JAMB Headquarters said he was probably hypnotised by his colleague to engage in the shady deals, adding that he only got to know him by phone last year through a third party.
He said, “It was not ordinary, he was just calling me, I don’t know him, he lured me into this when he convinced me that he has been into it for a long time.”
