The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, on Friday said many Nigerians would be shocked by the outcome of its probe into examination fraud between 2009-2019.<\/p>\n
JAMB Registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, disclosed that the board has discovered that some prominent Nigerians occupying high positions in the society today did not take its examination themselves.<\/p>\n
He said that although the board may not be able to punish these persons because they had already left the system, but it would go ahead to publish their names to shame them.<\/p>\n
The JAMB Registrar spoke at the 23rd annual seminar of the Nigerian Academy of Education under the topic, \u201cAdmissions into tertiary educational institutions in Nigeria.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added, \u201cIf I were to be punishing every staff of JAMB that is committing infractions, I will not focus on the assignment.<\/p>\n
\u201cI will be going from one disciplinary committee to the other and my attention will be diverted.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd that is why I go for the shortest route; once you are caught to have committed one infraction, you will not be assigned with examination duties again.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is a privilege, which I can withdraw. If you are that bad that I don\u2019t want to see your face around me, I will transfer you to another place.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf we have to take disciplinary action against all of them; look at it, today we have 100 people not less than 100 in police cells across the country who were caught for examination malpractices.<\/p>\n
\u201cI 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.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd my Director of Legal asked me, what offences should we charge these people for; for multiple registrations? And I said why can\u2019t we go to the Examination Malpractice Act?<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, my problem has started by having to draft the charges, despite the fact that we have evidences against them. That is the beginning of the problem.<\/p>\n
\u201cI will now ask to be paying my staff to travel out of Abuja to be testifying in court as they are adjourning month after month the cases and we will be wasting money and time on transport.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo even now, what we have seen, I tell people that I am more tolerant of corruption in JAMB than when I was as a vice-chancellor at the University of Ilorin.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to the Professor, the board has de-listed no fewer than 76 Computer-Based Test Centres for various infractions in the recently concluded unified tertiary matriculation examination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, on Friday said many Nigerians would be shocked by the outcome of its probe into examination fraud between 2009-2019. JAMB Registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, disclosed that the board has discovered that some prominent Nigerians occupying high positions in the society today did not take its examination themselves. He […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":8483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[325,610,177],"class_list":["post-9566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-education","tag-jamb","tag-politics"],"yoast_head":"\n