The controversies and rancours emanating from the mysterious snake swallowing money at the office of JAMB makurdi, was again reignited with the arrest and subsequent grilling of syndicates involved.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has smashed a syndicate that specialises in diverting funds from the account of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board.
The alleged mystery was made public by her, but after interrogation by the operatives of EFCC, it was deducted based on her statement that it is a syndicated and not unilateral act.
Detectives at the commission revealed that Chieshe said the money was collected in instalments from her by her Coordinator, Mr. Samuel Umoru.
In one of the statements she volunteered to the EFCC, Chieshe who is a clerk in the Makurdi office of JAMB, was said to have revealed that the coordinator usually asked her to withdraw proceeds of the sale of the cards from her account in two banks.
It was learnt that before the advent of the Treasury Single Accounts, the practice at the time was for JAMB officials to keep the proceeds of the sale of cards in unauthorised bank accounts which led to the loss of billions of naira.
In the statement she made to the EFCC under oath, Chieshe said, "This money that I withdraw, the coordinator used it for the office and some time for himself."
She claimed that she had been warning Umaru that it was improper to use the money for miscellaneous expenses in the office or for private purposes but he would not listen.
The suspect also claimed that Umoru was in the habit of drawing IOUs from the proceeds of the sale of the cards without reimbursing.
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