Information reaching Inside Sources has revealed that former Registrar of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) Professor Dibu Ojerinde is currently cooling off his heels at the office of the economic and financial crimes commission EFCC following an alleged non remittance of money worth four billion naira.
Ojerinde was arrested on Friday 15 September as a follow up of the Federal Executive Council’s decision to probe past Heads of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board [JAMB] and the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency over poor remittances to the Federal Government’s account in the past.
Inside Sources gathered that Ojerinde, was the former Registrar of National Examination Council (NECO) between1999 and 2007 before he was appointed JAMB registrar, a position he also held for 5 years (2007-2012) and was later reappointed on the 10th of April, 2012 but was sacked before the expiration of his tenure over, irregularities bordering on result multiplicity, centre relocation and system failure during the 2016 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations, UTME.
Sources at the examination board disclosed that Ojerinde had been in logger head with the JAMB’s former Director, Finance and Supply, Alhaji Bisi Jimoh who hails from Igboho the same town with him over the issue of a certain huge amount of money running into billions which Ojerinde gave to Alhaji Bisi and who in turn refused to remit the money back to Professor Ojerinde that led to the arrest of Alhaji Bisi’s father who was later released on bail.
Sources also revealed that one Dr. (Mrs.) R.O. Oloyede, wife of the present JAMB registrar, Professor Ishaq Olarewaju Oloyede was a staff of Professor Ojerinde during his tenure as the JAMB Registrar but he, Ojerinde frustrated her out of office before she was appointed the Director, National Open University (NOUN), Ilorin study centre.
