Thursday, March 23, 2017

NAPS REJECTS INCREASE IN JAMB REGULARIZATION FEE: CALLS FOR THE REMOVAL OF JAMB REGISTRAR



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)

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