- Prof Oloyede*
A former Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Professor Bello Salim has urged the Board to partner with relevant agencies to set up examination and admission tribunals for speedy trials of offenders.
He gave the advice during an interview in Abuja with JAMBulletin, a weekly publication of the office of the JAMB Registrar.
Salim, the third substantive Registrar of JAMB commended the incumbent, Professor Is-Haq Oloyede, saying “ The Registrar is winning the war with the series of convictions he has secured. I urge him to keep up the tempo. I am equally displeased with the illegal mobilization of unqualified corps members for the yearly mobilization exercise of the National Youth Service Corps scheme where some unpatriotic citizens falsify their records in conjunction with some unpatriotic elements in some tertiary institutions.”
He however added that for the Board to record outstanding success in curbing examination malpractice, it must as a matter of urgency set in motion machinery to curb the evil once and for all.
According to him , “Examination malpractice is a global malaise. The battle is ongoing, we haven’t won it. As such, all examination bodies need to be on the same page as the fight must be a collective one.”
Lamenting the slow pace of prosecuting offenders, he said “Let there be mobile courts just like the election tribunals to treat all cases of examination malpractice and other unwholesome practices promptly.”
He praised Professor Oloyede for his achievements at JAMB, especially his introduction of the Central Admissions Processing System (CAPS), which he said would check admission fraud and instill confidence in the admission system because it is devoid of human interference.