A Federal Territory Capital High Court Maitama today remanded Philomina Chieshe and five other Joint Admission and Matriculation Board officials, over their involvement in the missing N35 million from sales of JAMB e-card in Benue.
Recall that Chieshe had claimed that snake swallowed N35 million proceed of sales of JAMB e-card in Benue State.
She was arriagned alongside Samuel Umoru, Yakubu Jekada, Daniel Agbo, Priscilla Ogunsola, and Aliyu Yakubu.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC ) arraigned her and others on eight counts bordering on refusal to account for the board’s money between 2014 to 2016. Justice Peter Afen ordered that the defendants be remanded in the custody of EFCC, pending the out come of their bail application.
Man allegedly steals N7,300 property, gets N100,000 bail(Opens in a new browser tab) He then adjourned until Monday June 3, 2019 for the hearing of their bail application. EFCC alleged that Chieshe , sales clerk, with JAMB told their registrar and his team that she could not account for N36 million she made in previous years before the abolition of scratch cards.
The prosecuting counsel t , Mr Ekene Iheanacho
prayed the court to fix a date for commencement of trial and to remand the
defendants in jail. Iheanacho also admitted reciept of the bail applications
filled by lawyers to defendants, he said he hasn’t read through because he was
served today.
