The Registrar of Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, says the era of malpractices in the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) is over.
Oloyede said this in his address at the foundation laying ceremony of the board’s International Talent Resort Centre on Wednesday in Gbongan town, Ayedaade Local Government Area of the state.
He said that no amount of blackmail would deter the board from its avowed mission of ridding the education system of malpractices and examination syndicates in the country.
Oloyede noted that in the past five years, JAMB had strengthened its processes such that opportunities to commit examination malpractices had been substantially blocked.
According to him, the recent “exaggerated uproar” on the poor performance of candidates who sat for 2021 UTME is “misplaced”.
The JAMB registrar said that many of the candidates who sat for the examination failed because of fake digital past UTME questions and answers in circulation by ” a cartel” before the examination.
“Many may not have noticed that shortly before the commencement of 2021 UTME, a cartel published a fake digital past UTME Question Papers and was circulating fake questions and answers claiming to be genuinely from JAMB.
“Many parents who fell for the scam must have now realised how wrong they and their not so innocent children were.
“This explains why many students had to collapse in the examination hall when reality stared them in the face.
“This is a lesson for people to realize that the days of examination malpractice in JAMB conducted examinations is over and over forever”.
Oloyede also said that government and security agencies needed to pay attention to “miracle centres”, which he said was wreaking havoc on public examinations
