Registrar, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board
(JAMB), Prof Ishaq Oloyede, has slammed Nigerians that have been making jokes out of the
missing N36m from the board’s office in Makurdi, Benue State.
The
JAMB boss was reacting to the recent claim by Philomena Chieshe, a
sales clerk in JAMB office, Makurdi that her housemaid connived with
another JAMB staff, Joan Asen, to “spiritually” swallow N36m from the
vault in her office.
In her confessional statement while
being interrogated by a team of auditors, she said that Joan Asen and
her accomplices confessed that they had been stealing the money
“spiritually” through a mysterious snake that always sneaked into the
office to swallow the money from the vault.
Oloyede, who appeared
in Focus, a morning programmed monitored by DAILY POST on AIT, said it
is quite unfortunate that Nigerians have decided to turn the incident
into a joke, thereby celebrating mediocrity.
According to him,
“That is Nigerians for you, making jokes out of serious issue. I didn’t
find it funny since the story broke out because I think as a nation with
a future, rather than celebrating those achieving success, we are busy
celebrating people who should be caned.
“You turned serious issue
into to a national or an international joke. There are many snakes in
other establishment but because those overseeing them are also snakes,
that is why they could not be able to identify those snakes.
“Rather
than creating an impression that JAMB is extraordinarily bad, they
should give us a lesson to check where we went wrong.”