N36m Theft Saga: Senator storms JAMB office with snake charmers, anti-snake venom

Nigerian lawmaker, Senator Shehu Sani, on Tuesday morning, surprised the staff of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB, as he stormed their office with anti-snake venom and snake charmers, days after a staff claimed a missing N36 million was swallowed by a snake.

PREMIUM TIMES reports that JAMB Registrar, Ishaq Oloyede, went into rounds of laughter when the lawmaker presented him with two packs of anti-snake venom and offered the services of two snake charmers to fish out snakes that swallowed a huge amount of money.

JAMB revealed that it has suspended the staff, Philomena Chieshe, at its Makurdi office following the bizarre claim.

In reaction to the development, the senator visited the JAMB headquarters to ascertain the truth of the matter and to lend his “assistance”.

“The reason for my presence here is in response to the story that a snake swallowed about N36 million.

It is my concern that such a huge amount of money is reported to have been swallowed by a snake.

I believe the contribution I can make is to bring snake charmers from my constituency to the JAMB office to help them fish out the snake or weed out snakes from their premises,”

“If a snake can actually swallow N36 million one day we may wake up in this country to see that a snake has swallowed our foreign reserve or it has swallowed money that was gathered in the TSA.” Mr Sani said.

One of the snake charmers, Tasiu Abdulrasheed, who claimed to have been a professional snake charmer for up to 20 years, said he has never encountered a money-swallowing reptile.

JAMB spokesperson, Fabian Benjamin, said the board is dealing with more frivolous stories like Ms. Chieshe’s.

“There was even a case in Nasarawa when a staff claimed that on his way to come and submit the scratch card, he had an accident and the car got burnt with the scratch cards,” he said.