ASUU Chairman has urged JAMB, not to subject applicants of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, to public ridicule without conducting a thorough inquiry.
John Edor, Chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, University of Calabar, made the call. He also suggested that a media trial was not the best option.
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Remember that in 2019, JAMB charged an 18-year-old man, Kingsley Unekwe, with changing his UTME result from 201 to 269.
Unekwe was charged by the Board of faking his grades in order to satisfy the cut-off points for studying Medicine at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka.
Because Unekwe’s result was withdrawn, he became the fifth individual whose UTME scores were cancelled.
In 2021, a 19-year-old UTME candidate was arrested for allegedly tampering with his results.
According to JAMB spokesman Fabian Benjamin, the suspect was arrested after claiming to have scored 380 on the June exam.
After several inquiries, his score of 265 kept appearing as opposed to the 380 score, JAMB claimed.
A similar scenario is unfolding in 2023, with Miss Mmesoma Ejikeme, a 16-year-old student at Anglican Girls Secondary School in Nnewi, Anambra State, accused of tampering with her results.
Oby Ezekwesili, a former Education Minister, had previously called for an independent forensic examination of the incident.
“This saga between Mmesoma Ejikeme and @JAMBHQ requires an Independent Tech investigation to unearth all facts,” Ezekwesili tweeted.
Similarly, University of Calabar ASUU Chairman, John Edor, stated that competent agencies should be permitted to probe the incident.
Edor stated that a thorough inquiry would reveal if Mmesoma hacked into the JAMB platform or not.
Edor informed SurgeZirc NG that JAMB made the issue public without conducting a thorough investigation.
The social media trial is regrettable, and it was initiated by JAMB in order to disown the young student who claimed to have the highest score, he stated.
I believe that JAMB should have been more circumspect, that they should have done due diligence and compliance with due process before bringing it to public attention that the candidate forged the result.
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If the candidate falsified the report, it would imply that the candidate hacked into the JAMB platform, which would be an indictment of JAMB software security.
The software lacks the requisite capability to tolerate external intrusion.
