Independent Corrupt Practices and other related Offences
Commission has begun an investigation into alleged malpractices during the Unified
Tertiary Matriculation Examination conducted across the country.
A member of Board of the commission, Mrs Olubukola Balogun,
made this known in an interview with newsmen in Abuja on Tuesday.
She said that the commission was investigating the alleged
malpractice by candidates, who were sometimes aided by their parents and
professional examination writers.
According to her, the commission is doing a lot to
investigate the matter.
“We have the mandate for investigation, prosecution and
prevention.
“We are putting everything together for JAMB. I can assure
you that we will get there.
“The commission is going to know what happened and how we
can prevent it in the future,” she said.
Balogun said that anyone found culpable would be prosecuted,
insisting that “those that err, after our investigation, we are going to
prosecute’’.
Describing examination malpractice as “an act of
corruption’’, the board member said that such activity would not be allowed to
thrive in the country’s education system.
“There is a lot of corruption everywhere; therefore, we have
to go back to the drawing board and we have to all come together for this fight
against the scourge,” she said.
JAMB Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, had at an event
revealed that some desperate parents were in the habit of paying up to 10
persons to sit for the examination for just one child of theirs.
“You will discover that such a candidate who goes to
university with his or her picture is not the same as the one who wrote the
UTME, neither was he nor she the one who wrote the WASSCE.
“So, what is going to happen is for us to find a way of
ensuring more synergy between the assessment bodies and the institutions, in
such a way that all sharp practices are nipped into the bud.
“We are also looking at building mega CBT centres for our
examinations but this we cannot also achieve alone.
“We will also encourage genuine private investors who will
now be the body that will accredit its own subgroups, just as we will also
bring in the Computer Registration Council of Nigeria,” Oloyede said.
(NAN)
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