The Joint Admission and
Matriculation Board (JAMB) says no amount of “smear campaign” can prevent it
from using the National Identity Management Number (NIM) in the conduct of its
exams.
Ishaq Oloyede, the board’s
registrar, spoke on Wednesday during a meeting with CBT centres, technical
advisors, and service providers at the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria,
Kaduna state.
JAMB had earlier announced its
partnership with the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) to
clampdown on impersonation and other forms of exam malpractice ahead of its
forthcoming Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
In the wake of its decision to
use NIM during the 2020 UTME, Oloyede said those benefitting from registration
and exam frauds have continued to mount a negative campaign against the NIMC.
He also said the board had
reduced the number of available exam centres in a crackdown on cases where
candidates pay between N200,000 to N300,000 to some individuals to write the
exam for them.
“With the current campaign
against NIMC, I could see deliberate efforts at running the commission down so
that we can consider not collaborating with them. Those benefitting from
registration scandals are mounting a campaign against NIMC,” he said.
“We are collaborating with NIMC.
They are upright and just last week, five staff were sacked because they
collected bribe. So as you interact with NIMC, don’t have it in mind that you
are interacting with corrupt people, no, they are not.
“Unless I’m wrong, more than 40
per cent of our candidates have obtained their NIN while the remaining ones are
running helter-skelter to have theirs.”
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