BY VICTOR BUORO – For allegedly fleecing candidates in the ongoing registration exercises, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) is currently investigating six accredited Computer Based Tests (CBT) centres across the country.
According to the Examination body, the probe action followed reports from its monitoring team going around the country to assess the conduct of the 2022 registration for Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) and Direct Entry (DE).
Similarly, the board has warned all its e-PIN vendors to monitor the activities of their agents, as the board would not tolerate the perpetration of any fraudulent act in the course of conducting this year’s examinations
In the Weekly Bulletin issued by the Office of the Registrar, JAMB said the team monitored over 800 accredited centres nationwide and has placed six centres under watch given the various adverse reports recorded against them.
The Bulletin said; “These centres are said to be involved in the exploitation of candidates and other breaches of codes of operations as issued to all centres. These centres are being investigated and if established that they are involved, they would be delisted”.
Consequently, it said among the centres under investigation are Covenant Polytechnic, Centre 2, opposite Naval Base, Aba, Abia state; XYZ Technologies, New Secretariat, Umuahia in Abia state; and Rollings King Info Tech and Management Technology, Ikot Ikpene in Akwa-Ibom
Also, the Board listed College of Education, Sokoto road, Maru, Zamfara; Alsauda Global Investment Limited, Kawaji in Kano; and Success CBT Centre, College Road, Success Bus stop, Lisaluwa in Ondo among the centres under watch.
On the reports of fraudulent practices by some agents of e-PIN vendors, the Board frowned at such acts, warning that the vendors would be held accountable for their agents’ misconduct.
It said; ”Erring centres and e-PIN vendors or agents found wanting would be severely punished to serve as a deterrent to would-be infractors. The monitoring exercise will continue to the end of the registration and examination. Centres are therefore, urged to play by the rules.”
The 2022 registration flagged off on Saturday, February 19 and is scheduled to end on March 26, with the UTME slated to take place nationwide between May 6 and May 16, 2022. – With NAN reports
