the board may not review downward the fee for the Unified
Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) in 2018.
Oloyede told newsmen on Thursday in Ilorin that the board had
initially thought of reducing the fee for UTME in 2018.
The JAMB registrar, who decried the unwholesome activities of
some parents during the 2017 UTME, said reduction in fee was no longer
attractive.
He said many people were arrested during the last UTME for
allegedly collecting money from parents who were presumed to be poor. “It
(reduction in fee) is one of the options, but what’s mitigating against it, why
I’m not convinced and I don’t think the board too is convinced, is that are the
so-called poor people genuinely poor?
“Our findings reveal that what people
spend on corruption in the society to solicit for what was not lost is
alarming. “What parents pay for seeking unholy support and what parents are
prepared to pay looking for how to cut corners show that if actually they are
poor, they will not be able to secure the resources they are wasting,” he said.
On the controversy trailing the huge amount returned to the Federal Government
coffers by JAMB this year, Oloyede said the board had not been wasteful and
whatever comes in would be appropriately remitted. He promised that the board
would be strengthened to make it self-sustaining as obtainable across the
world.
“I am not aware of any agency that is in the nature of JAMB in the world
and is being funded by government. “But in Nigeria, because we are used to
something that is not proper, to get us out of what is improper will even be
strange,” Oloyede said. Oloyede, who promised that the board would improve on
its activities in the coming years, called on all stakeholders in the education
sector to be honest in the discharge of their responsibilities.
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