THE NATION
The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has described allegations of multiple scheduling for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), by a candidate, as false. It urged the public to always verify claims before making conclusions.
JAMB’s spokesperson Fabian Benjamin, after monitoring the rescheduled examination last Friday in Ibadan, Oyo State, said the Tiktok video made by Yahaya Suleiman Aminat accusing the board was misleading.
According to him, Aminat registered for the examination in Abuja, but relocated to Ibadan without notifying JAMB through the change of location option on its portal. This, he said, was in addition to her earlier request to sit for the examination in Abuja, adding that all information in the video are not the true reflection of what transpired.
Benjamin said: “Not all messages on social media are actually the true position of things. Nigerians should always verify messages on social media, and not just swallow it hook, line and sinker.
“There is no way a candidate will be in Ibadan, want to take the exam in Ibadan, and we will push the candidate to Abuja. We are also parents and there is no way this candidate would have been scheduled to write this exam repeatedly the way it is being alleged.
“So, I came all the way from Abuja so that Nigerians will know that this is not us. We try, as much as possible, to make things easy for these candidates, that is why we made it possible for each candidate to pick his or her examination towns, wherever is convenient. If you are in Ibadan and you want to write your examination in Kano, fine.
“Just as the candidate herself rightly said, she chose to write the exam in Abuja but relocated to Ibadan, which is not part of our problem, but when she relocated she didn’t even inform us. So, by our standard or procedure, she ought to have sat for the exam in Abuja. But what we have done for her is not what we do. We don’t make it possible for candidate to write exam wherever they feel like, but we did this because we want to get her and make sure she puts the record straight because whatever is in the public is not part of what we do. Our operational procedure does not depict us in that way.”
