The House of Representatives has ordered the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) to remit N3.602 billion to the Federal Government Consolidated Revenue Fund (CRF).
Rep. Bamidele Salam, the Chairman, Public Accounts Committee, who gave the order during an investigative hearing in Abuja, said that the remittance was not one that is subject to personal interpretation.
He said that it was a matter of law or regulation, and had nothing to do with the difference between the 25 percent and 50 percent as argued by JAMB.
The Committee unanimously ordered that JAMB should pay the sum to the Fiscal Responsibility Commission, FRC, and provide evidence of the remittance within 30 days.
Recall that the FRC had dragged JAMB before the committee over unremitted operating surplus.
Mr Bello Aliyu, the representative of FRC, said that as of 2021, and in agreement with the record submitted to the Committee, the liabilities were N390.725 million.
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