The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is set to arraign a female staff of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Philomina Chieshe, who had made a bizzare claim that the board’s N35m in her custody as sales clerk was swallowed by snake in Makurdi, Benue State.
The EFCC’s acting Head, Media and Publicity, Tony Orilade disclosed this in a statement, saying Chieshe would be arraigned on Friday alongside five other defendants before Justice Peter Afen of a Federal Capital Territory High Court, Abuja.
Others to be arraigned are Samuel Umoru, Yakubu Jekada, Daniel Agbo, Priscilla Ogunsola, and Aliyu Yakubu.
The statement partly read, “Chieshe became notorious when she made an outlandish claim that a mysterious snake swallowed about N35m cash arising from sale of e-JAMB cards in the state.
“The controversial JAMB official is being prosecuted by the EFCC on an eight-count charge, following her refusal to furnish the management of JAMB (with) the true information on the financial status of JAMB e-cards supplied to the Benue zonal office between 2014 and 2016.
“Chieshe’s action is contrary to Section 139 (a) of the Penal Code Law.”
Chieshe, a staff of the Makurdi office of JAMB had sometime in 2018 told auditors that a snake sent by her maid swallowed N36 million cash, generated from the sale of admissions’ scratch cards
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