The Federal Executive Council, FEC, presided by President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the probe of past heads of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB, and the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, over what it called poor remittances in the past.
The Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun, who briefed council about the performances of some government agencies, said JAMB for the first time remitted N5 billion to the coffers of the government with a balance of N3 billion still to be remitted compared to maximum N3 million per annum remitted in the past.
The highest amount that JAMB had ever remitted into the consolidated revenue fund before this management was N3m.
This year so far they have done N5bn and the Minister of Education reported that they have an additional N3bn that they are ready to remit which will take this year’s figure alone to N8bn and they have not increased their charges, they have not increased their fees.
So, the question the council members were asking was, where was all this money before? Adeogun said.
Persons likely to be affected by the order include immediate past JAMB registrar, Professor Dibu Ojerinde who held sway at the examination body for many years.
