Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has delisted 76
Computer-Based Test Centres for various infractions during the recently
concluded Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, raising fears that
results from those centres may be cancelled.
JAMB announced the delisting just as it appointed a Senior
Advocate of Nigeria to prosecute about 100 persons allegedly involved in
various malpractices during the UTME that held between April 11 and 18.
JAMB Registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, disclosed this on
Friday in Abuja while speaking on ‘Admissions into tertiary educational
institutions in Nigeria’ at the 23rd annual seminar of the Nigerian Academy of
Education.
The board had on April 22 said no fewer than 100 UTME
candidates were arrested nationwide by operatives of the Nigeria Security and
Civil Defence Corps and the police.
Oloyede, speaking on Friday, narrated how some of the
malpractices their Closed Circuit Television Cameras caught exam cheats in some
CBT centres, saying professional writers hid in toilets and later replaced the
UTME candidates who pretended they went
to the toilet to ease themselves.
The registrar did not name the SAN leading the prosecution
reportedly for security reasons; he did not also state any day the 2019 UTME
results would be released.
Oloyede said, “When we were watching the clips, we called
our staff to come and answer questions. These were clips of people, our own
staff, who did what was not right. It (malpractice) is not just a matter of the
past, it is still present.
“We see a lot. But we have problems. If I were to be
punishing every member of staff of JAMB that is committing infractions, I will
not focus on the assignment. I will be going from one disciplinary committee to
the other and my attention will be diverted.
“Today, we have no fewer than 100 in police cells across the
country who were caught for examination malpractices. I have appointed a Senior
Advocate of Nigeria who is a former solicitor-general to help me oversee all
these so that the suspects can be brought to book. My director of legal matters
asked me, ‘what offences should we charge these people for; for multiple
registrations?’ And I said, why can’t we go to the Examination Malpractice Act? So, my problem has started by having to draft
the charges, despite the fact that we have evidence against them.”
The registrar noted that the 76 delisted centres in 2019
were from a total of 741 registered centres, as against 22 delisted centres
among 630 registered centres in 2018.
Oloyede added, “Another thing we saw was malpractices by
substitution. A candidate did biometric verification and came into the hall but
a professional writer or mercenary had hidden in the toilet. So the candidate
would now stand up and said he or she was going to the toilet, only for the
professional writer to come back from the toilet and replace him or her.
“The real candidate will remain in the toilet. So our CCTV
watchers from Abuja caught that and said the person who went to the toilet was
not the same person who came back. And we quickly had to call the security
operatives to pick up that person. And they are saying I am a witch. They don’t
know that it is technology that is aiding us.”
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