By Busari Kabirat
The Foundation for Civic Education, Human Rights and Development Advancement has given one week ultimatum to the Joint Administration and Matriculation Board (JAMB), which starts counting from this week Wednesday to release all withheld JAMB results.
The Human Right group has threatened to lead an advocacy that would ultimately lead to the scrapping of the examination body if nothing was done after the given expiration date
This was made known in a statement by Clifford Thomas Esq, who was the Executive Director of the group, said,: “JAMB must address this injustice by releasing the full 2024 results.”
Prof Ishaq Oloyede, the JAMB Registrar, had already said while releasing the 2024 results that 78 of the withheld results are under investigation for alleged examination misconduct, 4,594 for” procedural investigation of candidates, 2,896 under investigation on verification and 57,056 for centre-based investigation.”
Clifford Thomas argued the decision, said, ” We put JAMB on notice, for it to release all results forthwith, unconditionally, to show that it has not failed in its duties. Candidates who wrote this examination are seeking admission into Nigerian public tertiary institutions. Why dash the confidence of candidates in our public educational institutions?
“Again there is no law in Nigeria that forbids candidates less than 18 years of age from writing JAMB’s entrance examination. It amounts to illegality, unconstitutional and a violation of the social (educational) rights of candidates to also seize their results because they are less than 18 years old. JAMB is calling for the kind of trouble that may lead to its extinction.
“We give an ultimatum of seven days, commencing from Wednesday 8th of May, 2024, to release the seized results. At the expiration of this seven days notice, we shall mobilise and galvanize support from parents and guardians to commence advocacy for the scrapping of JAMB and for the need of tertiary institutions in Nigeria to conduct their entrance examination”
“JAMB has not shown good faith and professional competence in the conduct and management of entrance examinations into tertiary institutions in Nigeria.
“The presidency is hereby put on notice, the Nigerian senate, the House of Representatives, the Nigerian Governors Forum, States Houses of Assembly, the media, security agencies and the diplomatic missions are also notified. This rip-off and injustice must stop! “
