Following alleged lopsidedness
in the on-going registration of candidates by Joint Admission and Matriculation
Board, the Chairman, Academic Staff Union of Universities, (ASUU) University of
Ibadan Chapter, Dr Deji Omole has called on the Registrar of JAMB, Professor
Ishaq Oloyede to voluntarily resign from office.
The academic union also asked
the Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu to call the registrar to order to
lessen the difficulty being experienced by the candidates.
Dr Omole said the board had
outlived its usefulness and the best thing is to scrap it and allow
universities design their standard examination for their own candidates.
He noted that the fact that a
mock examination was stopped due to logistic reasons underscored the point of
alleged incompetence of the Registrar, noting that if candidates could not do
mock how sure are they to pass the examination.
He said: “Why will anybody
make life difficult for candidates whose parents are struggling to live under
the terrible condition the government has made them to live in?"
“Why would somebody introduce
changes that are only known by members of the board? We have made case for the
scrapping of this body because in the present instance the introduction of
different registration procedures has turned candidates to victims of
fraud.”while different centres now make business by arranging with private
schools who bring all their students in group to come and register while
children of the masses look on.”
“This is a failed approach to
change and the Registrar admitted this with the cancellation of the mock
examination. How can we ensure that the candidates prepare well for the exams
when they spend weeks waiting for Personal Identification Number and are at the
mercy of registration officers who force them to go to cybercafe where they
have arrangements to first create their profile before they can have their PIN”
“This is where people are
duping Nigerian children. This is a total failure. Students must have at least
three months for registration, its procedure must be open and their options to
public universities must not be limited to serve the agenda of the proprietors
of private universities”, he argued.
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