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The House of Representatives Ad-hoc Committee has questioned the Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board (JAMB) over alleged lopsided employment. The committee demanded the agency to submit a list of all staff employed between 2015-2023 and criticized the lack of adherence to public service regulations. The committee found that JAMB employed 300 staff from 2015 to 2023 without advertising, shortchanging many Nigerian citizens based on their employment records. The Registrar of JAMB, Professor Ishaq Oloyede, explained that the board followed federal character principles in the job recruitment exercise conducted from 2015 to 2023. He stated that the board had obtained a waiver from relevant agencies to employ staff to replace those that had left. The alleged lopsided employement was due to the need to fill vacancies in over 40 offices across the federation. The committee has taken oral testimonies from Messers Babamasi Jalo, Abdulraziz Azara, Musa Ibrahim, and two other victims of employment racketeering by former Desk Officer Haruna Kolo. Kolo collected N1.2 million from Jalo for IPPIS capturing and asked him to look for other persons for salary payment. The House Committee insists that Kolo, the Director of IPPIS in the Office of Accountant-General of the Federation, and other accused persons must appear unfailingly before the probe panel.