Standup9ja: CBT centres gave bribes to JAMB officials –
Registrar
The Registrar, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board,
Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, has revealed how some Computer-Based Test centres gave
bribes to some JAMB officials to help them to falsify the 2017 Unified Tertiary
Matriculation Examination results.
Oloyede, who disclosed this at a briefing, said some of the
JAMB officials collected the bribes for “security reasons”. The registrar, who did not disclose the CBT
centres because of ongoing investigation, noted that the officials reported to
the board.
He decried the connivance of some parents with CBT centres
for examination malpractices, adding that some parents paid as much as N200,000
for exam fraud.
He said, “An area which I want to address is the intensity
of examination malpractices and the connivance of parents. There are
malpractices, which are concealed in flip flops and handkerchiefs, by
candidates. Some owners of the CBT centres also set them up for reasons other
than examinations.
“They sold answers. We also paid the money. Some centres
also extended cables into fraudulent places they called VIP rooms, but we
caught them. There were also cases of some CBT centres bribing our officials.
Our officials had to collect the bribes in some instances, when they considered
their safety. They then turned in the money to us when they reported back.”
Oloyede added that one of JAMB’s directors, whose name could
not yet be ascertained, went to a CBT centre, which had a VIP section where
malpractice was going on.
According to him, the director laughed and commended them,
because it was not safe for him to raise
any alarm at that time.
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