The House of Representatives has ordered a probe into the
financial status of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) with
regards to its revenue remittances to government coffers.The House at its
plenary yesterday said the body had, over the last three years, generated over
N21 billion from sale of forms to candidates seeking admission into the
nation’s tertiary institutions with no commensurate remittances, but still got
appropriation of over N6 billion from the national budget within the same
period.In its resolution on a motion moved on the matter by Ibrahim Ebbo, the
House mandated its joint committee on Education and Finance to investigate the
revenue generation and remittances of the Board, and report back its findings
within two weeks.
According to Ebbo, in 2011, 1, 493, 604 candidates bought
forms and sat for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME)
organized by the Board at the cost of N4, 600 per candidate, translating to a
total of N6, 870, 400 while it got an appropriation of N2, 021, 235, 070 in the
national budget the same year.
Similarly, 1.5 million candidates sat for the UTME in 2012,
amounting to N6.9 million generated through sale of forms, and 1, 644, 110 sat
in 2013 and N7, 562, 906, 000 generated through sale of forms while the Board
got N2, 370, 273, 304 and N2, 377,3 97, 191 for the two years respectively.
The lawmaker said the investigation was necessary to
ascertain whether JAMB was actually remitting the right sum to the Consolidated
Revenue Fund of the Federation as stipulated by law.
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