Following the refusal to properly account for the missing N36 million, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has on Friday, May 31, 2019, arraigned Philomena Chieshe an official of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB).

Chieshe had in February 2018 claimed that the missing N36 million, JAMB proceeds in her custody,  was swallowed by a snake in Makurdi, Benue State, JAMB office.

She is being prosecuted on an eight-count charge on refusal to furnish the management of JAMB the true information on the financial status of JAMB e-cards supplied to the Benue Zonal office between 2014 and 2016.

Chieshe was arraigned alongside five others, namely: Samuel Umoru, Yakubu Jekada, Daniel Agbo, Priscilla Ogunsola, and Aliyu Yakubu, before Justice Peter Afen of a Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court, Abuja.

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