The Registrar, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, Prof. Isa’aq Oloyede, on this interview with GRACE EDEMA warns dad and mom to desist from interfering throughout an examination course of
A serious scandal of consequence forgery, dedicated by a JAMB candidate, Mmesoma Ejikeme, in 2023, was a problem that drew international consideration, what are the teachings?
Nothing. There was nothing to be discovered from it as a result of, from the start, we knew that it was false.
We all know that some Nigerians are emotional. We all know that folks is not going to face the information. We all know that folks will need to crucify a public establishment as a result of they don’t have confidence in public establishments. We all know that we have to show that we’re proper.
I feel classes could have been discovered by the candidates, by the dad and mom, by these individuals leaping to the problem with out verification, by those that didn’t belief JAMB, who believed that each one authorities establishments have been corrupt and responsible earlier than being heard. They’re those who discovered the lesson. We discovered nothing from it as a result of we did nothing mistaken. And all the pieces went based on what we stated.
Those that misbehaved ought to have discovered some classes from what occurred.
We weren’t in any method disturbed. , a few of our colleagues from exterior the nation, have been asking us, what occurred?
How would your authorities do that with out you being heard? Consequently, within the Senate, you see that acceptable classes have been discovered as a result of any individual introduced comparable points to the Senate.
And the president of the Senate graciously stated go and examine earlier than you drag JAMB once more into this matter.
And we needed to thank the Senate President for that management. It turned out that even the second particular person had no grounds.
Folks believed the kid. Like something in Nigeria, the underdog is taken to be the best particular person whereas the particular person they take into account superior must clarify even when there was no motive for that. Properly, in Nigeria, bikes don’t hit automobiles. It’s a automobile that hits bikes.
That’s our understanding of justice. The perverted justice at that.
Wanting on the Nigerian training system, how would you describe its learners?
I don’t see something completely different. Nigerian college students aren’t completely different. These which might be completely different are the dad and mom. We’ve got peculiar dad and mom.
They’re dad and mom who will intrude unnecessarily, who need to manipulate the system, who need all the pieces to be about them, and who’re simply interested by their kids and never interested by others.
You will notice a mum or dad, for example, in Nigeria, who will probably be shouting, my baby scored 305. He needed to review Drugs on the College of Ibadan and he was not admitted.
And he has Seven A1. That’s his self-opinion. He’s simply having an unnecessarily excessive opinion about himself and his baby.
In case your baby scored 305 in a category, out of 400, he will probably be marked as obtainable. You might be forgetting that some scored 380, 370, and 360 and your baby will probably be ranked. And your baby would be the greatest in your village however he’ll come out to be quantity 340 in Nigeria. So why are you taking a look at your self and never wanting on the content material, the scenario through which your baby finds himself?
We’re taking a call now that we are going to make a candidate culpable as soon as the mom or father or the mum or dad of that particular person is discovered to have disrupted our examination.
They’re intruders. Some individuals simply need to manipulate the system. There was a case of a centre having an issue within the first session of the examination.
The issue was a cable drawback and was resolved inside half-hour, however they couldn’t proceed with the examination, the session had already ended as a result of delay that they had.
So, the primary session missed must be rearranged to turn out to be one other first session.
That was how dad and mom insisted that the second and third periods wouldn’t start as a result of their kids couldn’t sit the primary session. The middle had to herald safety brokers to arrest the scenario. What sort of fogeys are these? We at the moment are saying that any centre that permits a mum or dad to get close to the place the candidates are being screened or being handled, that centre will probably be delisted. Secondly, we have now instructed the centres to simply establish the mum or dad and the candidate, we’d take a correct sanction, towards the candidate. Whoever has a foul mum or dad deserves to endure the results of the dangerous conduct of the mum or dad. They can’t be destroying the careers of different college students due to their very own feelings and indiscipline.
On the kidnap situation, 280 college students have been kidnapped in Kaduna, what’s the implications of this to the training sector and what recommendation do you’ve for the federal government?
Let’s focus our consideration on how we are going to ensure that we convey the women again, that’s the situation now, we shouldn’t begin our directions, one thing has occurred let’s see how we initially resolve the issue, earlier than we now discuss, what’s the implications.
