A Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the remand of former Registrar of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Professor Adedibu Ojerinde over alleged N5.2b fraud.
The presiding judge, Justice Obiora Egwuatu, gave the ruling shortly after his arraignment, ordering him to be kept in a correctional facility pending the hearing of his bail application.
Ojerinde was arraigned on an 18-count charge, marked: FHC/ABJ/CR/97/2021, in which he was accused, among others, of complicity in the diversion of public funds estimated at over N5.2billion.
According to the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission, ICPC, Ojerinde committed the alleged offences in 2003 when he served as the Registrar of the National Examination Council, NECO, till 2021.
When the charges was read to him, Ojerinde pleaded not guilty to all the count Charges.
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His lawyer, Peter Olorunnishola (SAN), subsequently informed the court about a bail application he filed and served on the prosecution.
Olorunnishola however sought time to react to the counter-affidavit filed by lawyer to the prosecution, Ebenezer Shogunle, which the defence lawyer said was served on him late.
He urged the court to allow his client to continues on the administrative bail, earlier granted him by the ICPC, pending the hearing of his bail application.
Shogunle who did not object to Olorunnishola’s request however disagree with continuation of the administrative bail, noting that the matter is before the court.
