Education in Nigeria is
tilting toward becoming a commercial avenue with standards departing the sector
at speed of light, to get educated in Nigeria today with the obnoxious policies
of educational institutions is synonymous to getting a debt sentence.
Extortionate policies are made over night at will of institutional heads, and
students bear the pain of meeting up exploitative demands innocently. Virtually
all nooks and crannies of the educational sector need to be touched light by
the anti-corruption war of the federal government starting from the Joint
Admission Matriculation Board (JAMB).
JAMB dwell in retrogression
since the appointment of a new registrar, contrary to the positive new turn of
event Nigerians expect of the admission board. Professor Ishaq Oloyede the new
registrar has shown in his handling of JAMB, that he has nothing to offer other
than his interest in commercializing the board. In no time of his appointment
as JAMB registrar, JAMB regularization fee has been increased by over hundred
percent from four thousand Naira to ten thousand Naira, the fraudulent
regularization process aim at generating JAMB registration number for students
who got admitted without passing through JAMB has always been met with strong
rescission from students as we believe it is a policy solely designed to
squeeze out money from students purse.
The
justification of mere profile updates being charge at a fee higher than the
examination proper is nothing cut short of corruption. JAMB regularization fee had
since become a prerequisite for NYSC mobilization, making it compulsory for all
graduating students as such seventy percent of graduating students fall into the
extortion trap. JAMB is yet to justify why students are to pay for
regularization and not the schools that boycotts the admission board to dish
out admission at will to proffered candidate at expense of the admission
regulatory board provided their requirement are fulfilled.
Aiding and abetting of institutions charging at
rates higher than JAMB stipulation and new policy stating ten thousand Naira be
charge on alteration of JAMB forms (change of course, institution, or choice of
institution) further reveals the commercialization motive of professor Oloyede.
Our leadership has lost confidence in the personality of the registrar with his
extortive policies, the delay in the conduct of JAMB examination couple with
the fact that he is yet to clear his name from corruption allegations leveledagainst him by ASUU UNILORIN chapter.
Education should not and will not be a debt
sentence. We demand education that will be accessible by all. We demand the anti
corruption war of the federal government be extended to the Joint Admission
Matriculation Board and the replacement of the registrar within seven days, as
all machineries are in place to mobilize our teaming students to the street to
seek justice and put an end to the unjust exploitation of Nigeria students if
our demands are not met.
Signed
COMR OLUGBODE DAMOLA
NAPS National PRO
(08068360731)
