The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has expressed appreciation to the Senate, particularly the Senate President for vouching for the integrity of the Board.
The Registrar, who stated this while giving his remarks at the closing ceremony of the JAMB SERVICOM Customer Service Week, gave a brief background to his statement, when he said, “The successes recorded in this maiden edition of the programme reminded me of an incident that happened on the floor of the Senate last Wednesday.
There are some people, to whom if you were to give the whole world would not appreciate it but if you were to give just a little to some, they will appreciate it and God will multiply such for them.
This reminds me of what happened on the floor of the Senate, which might appear trivial to some but to me, was very important. A motion was proposed that certain steps should be taken about what was perceived to be a connivance between JAMB and some institutions on the issue of admission racketeering.
This was hardly flattering but sometimes, what appears to be negative, if thoroughly looked into, may turn out to have some positivity in it as the Senate President stood in defense of JAMB, saying, “JAMB must be heard, because JAMB has integrity.” We must, therefore, thank the Senate President, in particular, and the Senate in general for taking that course of action.
We thank them sincerely for giving us the opportunity to be heard. For that, I feel very proud of JAMB and those who are working in JAMB.” “However, JAMB will fully cooperate with the Senate to ensure that perpetrators, whosoever they are receive appropriate sanction, we will continue to do our best to ensure that the confidence reposed in us by the nation is not compromised in any way as we will continue to make the nation proud.” Findings from the Board’s preliminary investigations showed clearly that no staff of the Board was in any way involved in the reported admission irregularities.
Furthermore, the Registrar had recalled that the Board, on discovering some of the abnormalities, had insisted that the right thing must be done by the institutions involved by ensuring that all high-scoring candidates topping their merit list must be admitted into their programmes of choice. He noted that it was during the process of oversight that the Board discovered that many of the candidates parading themselves as high scorers did not meet the requirements to be admitted on merit. He stated that this was the main reason they had gone through illegal routes to secure their backdoor admissions.
According to him, all students know that any admission letter that did not emanate from JAMB is not a letter of admission but a ”Letter of Deception”.The Registrar expressed confidence that the Board’s mediation between the institution and the candidate would be greatly appreciated at the end of the investigation as the candidates had complicated their matter by accepting admissions through illegal channels even as he added that he who comes to equity must come with clean hands. He concluded by thanking all staff of the Board for their commitment, integrity and quality service delivery.
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