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Racketeering Rocks Bayelsa Medical University

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December 14, (THEWILL) – The last has not been heard of the ongoing admission and employment racketeering, currently rocking the newly established Bayelsa Medical University (BMU).

Investigations reveal that a former Public Relations Assistant and current Director in charge of Corporate Partnerships, Mrs Priye Jamabo, is facing a four-man disciplinary probe panel, headed by the Vice-Chancellor himself, Prof. Ebitimitula Etebu, to answer allegations of bribery and corruption scams in BMU.

It was reported that the chief culprit, Mrs Jamabo, goes about scamming victims with assurances to aid them in securing jobs and admissions in the institution to no avail.

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The unsuspecting victims are scammed after paying huge sums to Mrs Jamabo from as low as N20,000 to as high as N250,000 with promises of non-existing jobs and false admissions that are never fulfilled.

The said Jamabo has allegedly raked in over N4 million from the heist.

Reports show that through her sly nature, she adopts the advance fee fraud pattern, contrary to section 419 of Nigeria’s Criminal Code, luring victims to part away with huge sums and duping them without knowledge, as she kept on asking for more cash to realise her ploy.

According to witness accounts, she avoids calls from her victims after securing their funds and blocks such contacts when the victims get too pushy and anxious for results.

According to various witnesses from the school staff and students, her bubble burst recently when she duped over twenty persons, who out of frustration, reported the matter to the BMU management including the VC and Registrar.

It was said that Mrs Jamabo also duped her own neighbour’s younger sister with a Master’s Degree, who paid her N100,000 upfront to be employed as academic staff of the newly established Medical University, with a promise that the balance shall be paid after her first salaries for three months.

Other victims ranged from prospective students seeking admission into medical sciences in Surgery and Medicine to no avail, as they said Mrs Jamabo is a smooth operator, who speaks softly and slowly, assuring her victims until they get tired and abandon the cause and their hard-earned funds.

But luck ran out of said Mrs Jamabo when some of her victims took the courage to confront the Vice Chancellor and others to let the cat out of the bag, to the chagrin of the Principal Officers who confronted Mrs Jamabo over evidence of text messages, voice notes, WhatsApp chats and bank alert exchanges, which were screenshotted and sent to the VC and registrar as evidence of Mrs Jamabo’s illicit deals.

She has been making frantic calls to victims to temper justice with mercy and not stand as witness against her at the panel, as according to her, such evidence when tenable can lead to her sack as a staff of BMU.

According to a victim, who declined to be identified, “This woman is so sly and looks innocent. She’s a manipulator that can sell ice to the Eskimos just to get money out of you and dupe you. She appears calm, but she is a wolf in sheep’s clothing”, the source revealed.

Meanwhile, the school authorities were left with no option, but to save their faces, as they said Mrs Jamabo has been petitioned by the Bayelsa State House of Assembly and the supervising Commissioner of the Ministry of Education, Dr Gentle Emelah, for prompt action against the Okrika-born indigene of Rivers State, causing disaffection in the Bayelsa State-owned pilot Medical University.

Other sources revealed that Jamabo has had several skirmishes in her former department in the Public Relations Unit, fighting tooth and nail with diabolic means against her erstwhile boss and incumbent Public Relations Officer, Dr Marie Terez Teibowei, until she was transferred to another department, carved for her to forestall rivalry with her erstwhile boss

She had once boasted of being close to the Vice Chancellor and there is nothing anyone can do to stop her excesses as a new office was established for her to manage and coordinate external corporate partnerships for the institution when the scuffle between her and the PRO became unbearable.

As of the time of filing this report, over 23 victims have reported to the authorities the admission and job racketeering perpetuated by Mrs Jamabo in BMU.

A petition for her arrest and prosecution has also been domiciled at the State Criminal Investigative Bureau, to demand refunds for those duped, as well as for her to face prosecution for her crimes so as to serve as a deterrent to other scam prospects in the institution.

Meanwhile, Mrs Jamabo has been absent from her duty post for weeks after the flood as her victims’ calls and those of the Vice Chancellor or other panel members are kept on hold with no responses for her to officially tender her claims to the 4-man panel of inquiry.

Sources in the government house, who got wind of the scandal, disclosed that the Governor was unhappy over the incident, as he only recently increased the subvention of the institution and placed a ban on employment in the medical institution since it is already overstaffed with much undesired administrative staff and casual workers protesting for pensionable permanent employment.

This has given the state government cause to worry, as it struggles with the moral question of justifying the significance of funding three tertiary institutions owned by the Bayelsa State Government.

When contacted, the Public Relations Officer of the Bayelsa Medical University, Dr Marie Terez Teibowei, denied knowledge of the subject matter, while messages sent to Mrs Priye Jamabo have not been answered as of the time of filing this report.

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