The Joint Admissions and
Matriculation Board (JAMB) says it will create a platform that will enable
candidates who scored 250 and above know why they are denied placements in
their respective schools of choice.
Dr Fabian Benjamin, JAMB’s Head
of Media and Information, made the disclosure in an interview with the News
Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Lagos.
According to him, the development
is to further engender transparency and equity as well ensure that candidates
do not fall prey to fraudsters who may claim to be in a position to influence
their placements if they (candidates), can meet their terms.
“The board is urging all
candidates to have faith in the system as they need not beg, pay or patronise
anybody to secure admission.
“Reports reaching us indicate
that some persons have been going around collecting candidates’ registration
numbers and scores under the guise of helping them to secure placements in
their respective institutions of choice.
“Most of these candidates are
high scoring candidates who in the board’s 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation
Examination (UTME) ordinarily could have secured their admission on merit
considering the system put in place by the board,” he told NAN.
“The board, has through the
Central Admission Process System (CAPS), defined all parameters for admission,
and once a candidate meets the requirements, such a candidate is automatically
picked by the system without interference.
“Unfortunately due to the ignorance
of some of these candidates on how the system is being configured to engender
transparency, equity and fairness, they allow themselves to be defrauded by
some criminals, parting away with huge sums.
“Apparently, these candidates, in
the event of being able to secure admission through the CAPS, attribute their
success to these criminals who had collected money from them, without knowing
that they made no contribution to their success.”
According to Dr Fabian, it is
against this backdrop that the board has decided to create a platform that will
guide high scoring candidates, from 250 and above on their admission status.
“These group of candidates are to
visit the platform and know why they are not admitted in the case of such an
eventuality and take necessary precautions for subsequent exercises.
“This is to ensure that these
candidates have confidence in the system, as well as prevent them from falling
prey to fraudsters.
“We, therefore, also call on all
institutions of higher learning to key into this sensitisation of disclosing
why some high scoring candidates may not be admitted,” Benjamin said.
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