EFCC Set To Arraign Lady Who Claimed Snake Swallowed N35M JAMB Fund

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has said it will charge Philomina Chieshe to court over a missing N35million Joint Admission Matriculation Board (JAMB) funds

Chieshe had alleged that the fund was swallowed by a snake in Makurdi, Benue state.

A statement by the acting EFCC spokesman, Tony Orilade today revealed that Chieshe will be arraigned alongside five others; Samuel Umoru, Yakubu Jekada, Daniel Agbo, Priscilla Ogunsola, and Aliyu Yakubu before Justice Peter Afen of a Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court, Abuja,

Orilade said, “Chieshe became notorious when she made an outlandish claim that a mysterious snake swallowed about N35million cash arising from the sale of e-JAMB cards in the state.”

He said the JAMB official is being prosecuted by the EFCC on an eight-count charge, following her refusal to furnish the management of JAMB the true information on the financial status of JAMB e-cards supplied to the Benue Zonal office between 2014 and 2016.

According to Orilade, Chieshe’s action is contrary to Section 139 (a) of the Penal Code Law.

Meanwhile, Naija News recalls that following the conclusion of this year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, JAMB remitted N5 billion to the account of the Federal government, a development that has been widely lauded by the President Muhammadu Buhari led Administration.