The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB has withdrawn licences from eleven centres for charging candidates exorbitant amount in the ongoing 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) registration.
The registrar of the board, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, made this known in Abuja at an interactive session with stakeholders.
Professor Oluyede said that the proliferation of tutorial centres was a major concern as most of the centres engaged in fraud and corruption, during registrations and examinations.
He said that charging above the stipulated four- thousand- sevenhundred thousand naira for the 2020 UTME registration was illegitimate and would only destroy the nation; as it was an act of fraud and corruption adding that the exorbitant amount could have negative effects on the nation as well as having effects in destroying the system.
Professor Oloyede said that the board was magnanimous enough to pay the sum of two hundred and ten naira as commission for each of the forms sold, to about two million candidates nationwide, saying extorting the candidates was unjust.
The centres affected in Anambra State are Adazi- Nnukwu ICT/CBT for selling forms at five thousand naira, Emkenly computers and Nneamaka Secondary School.
Meanwhile, the Commandant General, Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corp, NSCDC, Mr. Abdullahi Muhammadu, urged the board to limit the tutorial centres in the country, while making sure that lists of certified tutorial centres were revealed to reduce infractions, as it relate to examinations.
Mr. Muhammadu also called on commandants in the various states, to make integrity their watchword, in order not to betray the confidence the board have in them as well as Nigerians.
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