Professor Ishaq Oloyede, Registrar of Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), has dismissed claims making rounds that the board spent a huge amount on fumigation, and meals, among other items in 2024.
The Registrar who described the claims as misrepresentation of figures, noted that the Board’s total expenditure for fumigation across all states in 2024 was less than N1 million.
Fielding questions from newsmen on the sideline of an event on Tuesday in Abuja, the Registrar explained that the misunderstandings arose because the detailed breakdown of the budget proposal was not fully reviewed during the presentation.
He said “I want to say emphatically, without any iota of doubt, that I never presented any budget performance of 2024 before the National Assembly yesterday. I think it’s a lot of misunderstanding.
” I did not talk about the 2024 budget performance. And we did not spend any money, any humongous money in 2024. Indeed, what we spent on fumigation in the whole state of the Federation, all offices in 2024, not up to one million naira. And what we budgeted for 2025 for fumigation is less than two million.
“On the succeeding page, we provided the breakdown with asterisks to call attention to it, but we did not go and read the other pages where we analyzed what we were doing.”
On the N6.5 billion allegedly spent on training in 2024, Oloyede said the money was just a proposal for 2025 that cut across various budget lines, including monitoring of examination, admission expenses, e-facilities payment, and awards for best higher education institutions, among others.
” We have 10,500 examiners and invigilators going to conduct both the mock and the UTME. Some of them stay for 10 days. I do not determine their DTA. It’s the government that determines the DTA to be paid to them. So what offence have I committed in putting their claims together?” he queried.
On the alleged huge amount spent on meals, Oloyede said: “Everybody knows that at the JAMB headquarters, we provide one lunch for those in the headquarters. And we provide this lunch for them, partly because we don’t want our system to be destroyed.
