A source at the Bwari Headquarters of JAMB told New Telegraph that Registrar of the Board, Prof. Dibu Ojerinde, is not happy with the aftermath of the computerbased examination, this year, which has attracted a lot of criticisms to the Board.
The coordinators, who were served queries, were asked to explain why centres they had earlier certified okay for the conduct of the examination developed hitches. While it was learnt that some of the officials were said to have compromised or were negligent in their duty while certifying some centres appropriate for the examination, others were allegedly involved in examination malpractices.
It was gathered that Ojerinde, at a meeting with the coordinators, tongue-lashed those he accused of frustrating his efforts. Public Relations Officer of the Board, Fabian Benjamin, who spoke to our correspondent on phone yesterday, said that all those found to have committed negligence of duty before and during the examination would face disciplinary committee.
He said that the Board would not name those centres involved in financial inducement of JAMB officials, but added that security agencies are already investigating those who offered bribe and those who collected money to aid examination malpractices.
“Yes, we don’t want to mention names now because security operatives are already working on that. We have instances of a centre owner offering money to JAMB official,” he said. New Telegraph learnt that some JAMB staff are already facing disciplinary committee for extorting money from candidates before the conduct of the examination, even as some of them were caught on camera in states such as Edo, Rivers and Lagos.
According to the spokesperson for the Board, all those found guilty of aiding and abetting examination malpractices in the conduct of this year’s UTME face sack and prosecution, which, he said, is seven years jail term punishment as contained in the JAMB Act.
“The minimum punishment is to be sacked. They may be sacked and jailed for seven years, because that is what the JAMB Act says. Anybody who is involved in examination malpractices will be sentenced to seven years in jail,” he said.
The Board, he explained, had learnt a lot of lesson from the pitfalls from the last UTME, noting that many stakeholders were still opposed to the Computer-Based Test. Over 1,592,44 candidates registered for the 2016 UTME nationwide and in seven foreign countries.
Ojerinde had, on Friday, at a press conference to review the conduct of the UTME, lamented that conducting examination in Nigeria is fast becoming a war. The JAMB boss said the actual candidates that sat for the examination was 1,546,633, representing 97.12 per cent, while a total of 23,577 candidates absented from the examination, representing 1.48 per cent of the total number candidates that registered for the 2016 UTME. He disclosed that a total of 145,704, representing 9.1 per cent of candidates, had the issue of multiple results, which the Board has tried to sort out.
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