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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB is currently under investigation over job racketeering.
JAMB is been queried by the House of Representatives Ad-hoc Committee investigating alleged job racketeering in government agencies.
JAMB is being investigated over the recruitment of over 300 staff without advertising the slots for qualified Nigerians.
The committee chairman, Yusuf Adamu Gagdi, said the recruitment of 300 staff without advertising was against the law and had short-changed millions of Nigerians who should have been given equal opportunity in the employment process.
JAMB Registrar, Prof Ishaq Oloyede, had told the panel that the Board had obtained a waiver from the Federal Character Commission (FCC) to recruit the staff due to the exigencies and urgency at the time.
However, Gagdi said the waiver was being abused and was being used to deny qualified Nigerians opportunities to get jobs.
He said, "Why did you choose to apply for a waiver when you are recruiting 300 and the law says only if the number is below 100? Why did you use a waiver for the recruitment of over 300 staff?
"You employed 300 staff without advertisement. That is against the law. It short-changed millions of Nigerians that should be given equal opportunity in terms of the employment process."
The committee also said the job racketeering that happened in the Federal Character Commission (FCC) will not distract it from probing other MDAs.
Addressing some of the victims of job racketeering in FCC that appeared before the Committee on Monday, Gagdi said, the committee will do all it can to ensure that justice is done when it submits its report.
The committee has invited the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, to appear before it on Wednesday to answer questions about the recruitment of staff by JAMB.
