JAMB parades workers for alleged extortion, accomplice blames suspect

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, on Monday, paraded two of its staff members for allegedly extorting money from Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination candidates with the promise to help them secure university admission.

The affected employees are Andy Okoro, a level 12 officer in Delta State’s JAMB office, who confessed to collecting N500,000 from four candidates’ parents, out of which he paid N180,000 to a colleague, Gambo Ibrahim Abba, to help facilitate their admission.

But the issue came to the public domain when one of the parents petitioned JAMB about Okoro’s activities, a move that prompted the organisation to investigate the issue.