JAMB confirms missing N36million, vows to find where funds vanished to (Details, pics)

The mysterious disappearance of N36million cash from the vaults of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) is generating lots of reactions from Nigerians across the country.

The reactions followed a report that an official in JAMB's finance department had claimed that a mysterious snake 'spiritually' entered into the vault to take away the money. Although the matter is a serious case of corruption and criminality, Nigerians have been seeing the funny side of it.

The social media is currently awash with different hilarious reactions to the development.

However, On its part, JAMB has reacted to the development. JAMB's head of media and public relations Dr. Fabian Benjamin confirmed both the missing funds and claims by the major suspect that a snake swallowed it. According to a New Telegraph report on Sunday, Benjamin explained that money was discovered missing after the new registrar of the examination body Prof. Is-haq Oloyede ordered a comprehensive audit of the accounts of all departments, units and state offices across the country.

He said: “There is nothing new about the development. It is just one of those cases discovered by the new leadership of JAMB under Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, and those are involved have already been placed on interdiction pending the determination of their matter.

“So the revelation is a result of the new regime of transparency and accountability being instituted in JAMB. We can assure the Nigerian public that the leadership of Oloyede would leave no stone unturned to reposition the Board for the good of the nation.”