JAMB orders arrest of parents found at CBT centres
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has taken a stern stance ahead of the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), directing all Computer-Based Test (CBT) centre owners to arrest any parent found near any of their facilities during the examination period.
This directive was issued during the final briefing of the CBT centre owners, held virtually on Wednesday, April 17, 2024.
According to JAMB spokesman, Fabian Benjamin, the decision was made due to the intrusive disposition of some parents during the Board’s previous exercises. “He quoted JAMB Registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, stating that any parent found disobeying this order would not only face arrest but also risk disqualification of their ward from sitting for the examination”.
Oloyede emphasised the necessity of this measure, highlighting that over time, it had been observed that many of these intruding parents were facilitators of examination infractions, while others had disrupted previous examinations through their actions. “Some even disguised themselves as parents to infiltrate the centres and perpetrate various forms of infractions”.
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The Registrar noted that according to the national policy on education, candidates for the examination must have attained the age of 17 years, indicating that parents attempting to accompany their underage children to the examination venue were in violation of this requirement.
In preparation for the 2024 UTME, JAMB disclosed that arrangements had been finalised for the conduct of the examination in over 700 CBT centres across the nation.
While expecting a seamless exercise, the Board assured that adequate provisions had been made to tackle any technical glitches that might occur during the examination.
Oloyede warned that if any session experienced technical challenges, candidates in subsequent sessions would be allowed to sit their examination as scheduled, while those affected in the challenged session would be rescheduled for the last session of the day, the following day, or even further, depending on the centre schedules.
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