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JAMB faults claims of ‘humongous spending’ on meals, fumigation, others in 2024

JAMB faults claims of ‘humongous spending’ on meals, fumigation, others in 2024

The Registrar, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, has clarified figures in the 2025 budget proposal presented to the National Assembly Joint Committee on Finance.

Oloyede, while fielding questions from newsmen on the sidelines of an event in Abuja on Tuesday, dismissed reports making the rounds that the board spent huge amount on fumigation and meals, among other items in 2024.

Oloyede stated that the board’s total expenditure for fumigation across all states in 2024 was less than N1 million.

He said that what was presented before the committee was not the 2024 expenditure but the 2025 budget proposal.

He added that claims regarding humongous spending in 2024 on meals or fumigation, security and cleaning were totally unfounded.

“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 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 N1 million. And what we budgeted for 2025 for fumigation is less than N2 million,” he said.

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Oloyede explained that the misunderstanding arose because the detailed breakdown of the budget proposal was not fully reviewed during the presentation.

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.

He added that this included monitoring of examination, admission expenses, e-facilities payment and awards for best higher education institutions.

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