JAMB set to control physical interactions with applicants

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says it has concluded arrangements to fully automate its services to reduce physical contact with candidates.

The registrar and chief executive of JAMB, Professor Ish-aq Oloyede, said this habecomes imperative “given that many of the candidates who take the UTME are underage.”

This was stated in a bulletin of the board on Monday on its website.

According to Professor Oloyede in the bulletin, the move is part of the initiatives to prevent extortion, exploitation  and enhance service delivery.

It reads: “Professor Oloyede stated that given that many of the candidates who take the UTME are underage, the board is considering limiting physical contact with those with challenges to avoid any alleged issues of extortion and other forms of exploitation.”

He stated that in due course, interactions would be limited to online ones with calls recorded for effective monitoring and quality control.”

It noted also that “the board had received a series of reports bordering on some unwholesome practices, adding that a team had been deployed to investigate the claims, promising to make the findings public.

The registrar also urged students who had accused some JAMB officials and others such as CBT centres of extortion in the name of ‘regularisation’ or other services to provide credible evidence, adding that “any staff found culpable would face the full wrath of the law.”

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