A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Tuesday, 6th July 2021, ordered the remand of a former Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) and the National Examinations Council (NECO), Professor Adedibu Ojerinde, in a correctional facility over an alleged ₦5.2 billion fraud.
Highlights of the 18-Count ICPC Charge
- The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) arraigned Prof. Ojerinde on an 18-count charge bordering on the alleged diversion of public funds estimated at over ₦5.2 billion during his tenure as Registrar of NECO and JAMB.
- In one of the counts, the ICPC alleged that between 2013 and 2014 while heading JAMB, Ojerinde awarded two contracts of ₦450 million each for the supply of pencils and erasers (before CBT replaced paper-based OMR exams) to Double 07 Concept Limited and Pristine Global Concept Limited without evidence that the items were supplied.
- Presiding Judge, Justice Obiora Egwuatu, ordered that the former Registrar be remanded pending the hearing of his bail application scheduled for Thursday, 8th July 2021.
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