The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board had yet to commence releasing the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination because of some internal appraisal, its Registrar/ Chief Executive,Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, said on Tuesday.
According to him, JAMB would n’t want to release results because it had asked people to submit reports, particularly of malpractices.
Oloyede stated these in an interview with The PUNCH in Abuja during a meeting of the National Youth Service Corps management and with Registrars of Corps Producing Institutions in Nigeria.
He said, “ Yes, we’ve no reason not to release the results but we’re also doing some internal appraisal. One, we do n’t want this situation where you release results and you start to withdraw some; so we’ve asked people to submit reports, particularly of malpractices.
“And for the first day after the result was ready, we now reviewed and we saw that about 40 per cent of the report weren’t in. So, why release 60 per cent and create confusion? We’ve maintained that this time, we won’t release the results until we’ve all the reports of examination malpractices.
“So, the issue of releasing results and now coming, they will be veritably many rather than the large number that we had. The results are ready but we believe we need to have all the reports; we’ve about 70 per cent of reports now streamlined but we want 100 per cent.
“The result will be out; for example, I was told that the exam of Saturday is completed now. The results are in; when I get to the office today I’ll append my signature and it’ll go out.”
The JAMB CEO also spoke about those people who couldn’t write the UTME based on technical challenges in some CBT centres.
“I don’t know those schools. There are no technical hitches because those you called BVN matters we’ve reassigned all of them from yesterday (Monday) for today (Tuesday). We created four sections to clear all of them because it isn’t the fault of the applicant.
“We’ve a technical hitch from one of our service providers and where they were supposed to use one character they used another and it created some problems for the applicants. But we’ve addressed that by reassigning them and all of them without exception at the end of tomorrow, we’re putting them fourth section.
“You know the third section finishes at around 3:30 pm, so we purposely created a fourth section to make sure we clear them by tomorrow because we’ve no time.”
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