The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) Special Committee on Examination Infractions (SCEI) has raised concerns over the examination fraud in Nigeria.
Naijaonpoint reports that the chairman of the committee, Jake Epelle, during an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Monday, stated that the infractions uncovered by the committee during the last University Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) showed that the education sector is in trouble.
Epella said that computer-based centres found culpable in the over 4,000 cases of exam fraud uncovered by the committee will be shut down and their owners jailed.
He stated that while JAMB had one of the best technologies for managing examinations, some individuals were interested in compromising the agency’s operations, emphasising that the situation would have been worse if the agency had not utilised technology in its operations.
He said, “What we saw is mind-blowing — the manipulations, the transactions, you will see young people with a lot of technology in their hands. It’s amazing.
“In one of the sessions, I addressed the police investigating, and I said, ‘I want to see this person in jail.’ It’s not a question of investigating this and letting people go scot-free.
“A lot of CBT centres are going to be shut down, their equipment taken from them, and the owners end up in jail. The exam fraud uncovered by JAMB shows that Nigeria’s education sector is in trouble.”
Epelle further stated that 80 per cent of the examination malpractices were caused by parents desperate to give marks that their children did not deserve.
He added, “Guess what? Eighty per cent of these infractions are caused by parents who want to give marks to their children that they don’t deserve. This is my call to JAMB: the time has come to name and shame.
“These same parents go on air and say all kinds of evil against JAMB, disgrace the system, and threaten to sue. Many of them go on air with SANs. Meanwhile, by the time they start interrogating, they start begging Oloyede; it has happened, we saw the cases.”
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