Candidates of the Joint Admission And Matriculation Board (JAMB)
examination trooped to the University of Lagos (UNILAG) campus on
Tuesday afternoon to protest against the management of the
institution and the registrar of JAMB, Professor Dibu Ojerinde.
The students, who were already preparing to sit for post-JAMB tests in
UNILAG expressed shock at discovering their institutions of choice
had been arbitrarily changed in their candidate records without their
consent, and they called for the matter to be probed, and Professor
Ojerinde removed.
The protesters explained that JAMB’s action has randomly distributed
them to schools they did not choose, and is forcing them into random
schools against their individual wishes.
The protesters included the affected candidates, who said their records
of choice schools have been arbitrarily altered by JAMB, some parents
and legal practitioners, who have threatened to bring legal action
against the Board.
They also criticized the University of Lagos, which raised the cut-off
score for qualifying to take its post-JAMB test, accusing the institution
of arbitrarily changing JAMB’s cut-off score to dictate its own.
“JAMB said it is 180,” one of the affected candidates explained. “Even
if UNILAG said it wants 200, it might be understandable, but what is
250?”
One of the parents who came to the protest pointed out that his had
repeated the JAMB test for the third year because he only wants to
attend UNILAG.
“He rejected an offer from another institution in the last year’s season.
How then can JAMB suddenly change his choice institution when he’s
about to take post-JAMB test again in UNILAG?” he asked.
Asked another parent, “How can JAMB by its own decision change my
daughter’s school to Maiduguri where [Boko Haram leader] Shekau will
probably be the VC?”
An activist who led the students in the protest, Dr. Kayode Owolabi,
threatened to sue JAMB over the action. He accused the Board of
deceiving and defrauding the students over sales of “Change of
Institution and Course forms” only to later disregard their choices and
distribute them randomly into schools they did not choose.
“I opened my record online and found a notice that my institution of
choice has been changed by, single-handedly by JAMB,” one of the
candidates explained.
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