By Deborah Onyofufeke
Registrar and Chief Executive Officer of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board JAMB, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede has expressed displeasure and criticized the House of Representatives, for falsely accusing the Board of imposing multiple fees on the 2022 candidates who are to take the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME)
Oloyede expressed his displeasure Tuesday while responding to a field of questions, on the level of preparation for the mock UTME slated for Saturday, April 9th nationwide.
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According to Oloyede, he said he expected the lawmakers to have a shred of proper evidence before accusing one of an offence instead of working with allegations
He said, “as regards the resolution of the House, I will not want to talk about it, we feel that the purpose was to discourage us, but we won’t be discouraged, I believe I should not talk about it until we are invited, its an allegation but we expected that an allegation to come from the House should be something solid and based on facts.
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“So I am a bit disappointed that somebody could use absolute falsehood just to embarrass us, if it is the intention as we expect to discourage us from doing what we are doing, we will not be deterred, we expect Nigerians to know when their representatives are doing what is right and what is not right, I can’t say more than that for now”
The UTME mock examination on the other hand, is expected to take place Saturday nationwide but due to the increase in diesel price, the Jamb Registrar said the Board has permitted CBT centers to slightly increase its service charge from N700 to not more than N1000, to enable them offer reliable services.
He said “Yes we have allowed the accredited CBT centres, we have even said anybody who can decrease can do so, but we have hitherto asked the centers not to charge more than N700 naira, now we have seen the reality, and we said they could charge up to N1000.
“So the reality is the truth, unless you don’t want them to conduct the examination, we have done the analysis of their expenses and if we insist they must put on their Air conditioners, it means the cost of generator or diesel has to be taken into consideration. We are not increasing our charges,”
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Recall that the House of Representatives had in its plenary session recently, took a resolution to probe JAMB over alleged imposition of multiple fees on candidates, following a motion raised by Honourable Sergius Ogun, PDP-Edo.
The House had listed charges on printing of JAMB result slip, N1000, printing of admission letter N1000, change of institution/course N2500 and retrieving of registration number N1000 as areas it intends to probe the Board.
In his motion, Ogun had stated that section 88(1) and (2) of the Constitution empowers the National Assembly to conduct investigations into the activities of any authority executing or administering laws.
