Missing N36m: Sen. Sani storms JAMB Hdqtrs with snake charmers

The Senator representing Kaduna Central Senatorial District,
Sen. Shehu Sani has today stormed the headquarters of the Joint
Admissions and Matriculations Board in Bwari, FCT with snake
charmers.

Sani said, the visit, was with a view to getting to the bottom
of the issue surrounding the reported case of missing N36 million
from the JAMB office in Makurdi, Benue.

Philomena Chieshe, a sales clerk in the JAMB office, Makurdi,
told the JAMB registrar and his team that “she could not account
for the N36 million she made in previous years before the abolition
of scratch cards.

“In the course of interrogation, Philomena denied the
allegations that she stole the money but confessed that her
housemaid connived with another JAMB staff to spiritually (through
a snake) steal the money from the vault in the account office”, the
report said.

According to Sani, his visit to JAMB is in response to the story
that a snake swallowed N36 million.

He lamented that it was of concern that such a huge sum of money
was reported to have been swallowed by a snake.

“I believe that the contribution I can make is to bring snake
charmers from my constituency to the JAMB office and to help them
fish out the snake and weed out snakes from their premises.”

Sani further said that if a snake could actually swallow N36
million, one day Nigerians may wake up to say that a snake had
swallowed the country’s foreign reserve.

“I believe that my contribution to JAMB will help them fish out
snakes within the office.

“Even if it is a spiritual matter, we believe that these people
I brought, they are some of the best snake charmers in the country
and they will help in arresting both physical and spiritual snakes
if there has been any in the JAMB office.”

He explained that it was very clear the incident did not happen
doing the tenure of the JAMB Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede.

“We are very proud of him. We believe he is someone who should
continue to man this agency and he is acting in the right
direction.

“It is good for Nigerians to know this is what has been
happening before he came into office. I believe the best thing we
can do is to continue to support him.

“People should understand the story which is very clear and if
that is the case, if people, civil servants could have used the
opportunity to have been in office to enrich themselves using snake
stories.

“It is high time for all Nigerians to know that there may be
even dirty things happening in other places but this place has
exposed it for us to see the truth and I’m very much happy about
that.

“We will continue to support him. And as far as we are concerned
the story that public funds could be taken away by some people in
the name of snake, it is virtually unacceptable.

Sani thereafter presented cartons of snake repellent and
chemicals to the agency.

In his response, the Spokesperson for JAMB, Mr Fabian Benjamin
explained that on assumption of duty, the present registrar
discovered that there were a lot of loopholes in the sale of
scratch cards.

“Before the registrar resumed duty, what we were using to
register candidates and all other services was scratch cards.

“We discovered a lot of loopholes, we discovered that staff were
exposed to cash and then he stopped the use of scratch cards.

“The registrar thereafter introduced pin vending. After
introducing pin vending, it was natural for him to call for audit
or stock taking.

“After taking stock it was discovered that in some offices they
could not account for what they sold, or the card that was
left.

The Senator representing Kaduna Central Senatorial District,
Sen. Shehu Sani has today stormed the headquarters of the Joint
Admissions and Matriculations Board in Bwari, FCT with snake
charmers.

Sani said, the visit, was with a view to getting to the bottom
of the issue surrounding the reported case of missing N36 million
from the JAMB office in Makurdi, Benue.

Philomena Chieshe, a sales clerk in the JAMB office, Makurdi,
told the JAMB registrar and his team that “she could not account
for the N36 million she made in previous years before the abolition
of scratch cards.

“In the course of interrogation, Philomena denied the
allegations that she stole the money but confessed that her
housemaid connived with another JAMB staff to spiritually (through
a snake) steal the money from the vault in the account office”, the
report said.

According to Sani, his visit to JAMB is in response to the story
that a snake swallowed N36 million.

He lamented that it was of concern that such a huge sum of money
was reported to have been swallowed by a snake.

“I believe that the contribution I can make is to bring snake
charmers from my constituency to the JAMB office and to help them
fish out the snake and weed out snakes from their premises.”

Sani further said that if a snake could actually swallow N36
million, one day Nigerians may wake up to say that a snake had
swallowed the country’s foreign reserve.

“I believe that my contribution to JAMB will help them fish out
snakes within the office.

“Even if it is a spiritual matter, we believe that these people
I brought, they are some of the best snake charmers in the country
and they will help in arresting both physical and spiritual snakes
if there has been any in the JAMB office.”

He explained that it was very clear the incident did not happen
doing the tenure of the JAMB Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede.

“We are very proud of him. We believe he is someone who should
continue to man this agency and he is acting in the right
direction.

“It is good for Nigerians to know this is what has been
happening before he came into office. I believe the best thing we
can do is to continue to support him.

“People should understand the story which is very clear and if
that is the case, if people, civil servants could have used the
opportunity to have been in office to enrich themselves using snake
stories.

“It is high time for all Nigerians to know that there may be
even dirty things happening in other places but this place has
exposed it for us to see the truth and I’m very much happy about
that.

“We will continue to support him. And as far as we are concerned
the story that public funds could be taken away by some people in
the name of snake, it is virtually unacceptable.

Sani thereafter presented cartons of snake repellent and
chemicals to the agency.

In his response, the Spokesperson for JAMB, Mr Fabian Benjamin
explained that on assumption of duty, the present registrar
discovered that there were a lot of loopholes in the sale of
scratch cards.

“Before the registrar resumed duty, what we were using to
register candidates and all other services was scratch cards.

“We discovered a lot of loopholes, we discovered that staff were
exposed to cash and then he stopped the use of scratch cards.

“The registrar thereafter introduced pin vending. After
introducing pin vending, it was natural for him to call for audit
or stock taking.

“After taking stock it was discovered that in some offices they
could not account for what they sold, or the card that was
left.