The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB,
has urged the public to disregard the speculations that it had commenced the
sales of its application documents for 2017 UTME by some group of persons.
The
board’s head of media and information, Fabian Benjamin, debunked the
speculations in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN,
on Sunday in Lagos.
According to the statement, the registrar of the
examination body, Ishaq Oloyede, has expressed disappointment with the
development and called on innocent Nigerians not to fall prey.“The public is
hereby notified that JAMB has not commenced the sales of its application
documents as advertised by some unknown and desperate persons.“They are to
disregard any website or individuals claiming to be in possession of these
documents and offering same for sales.“We are putting finishing touches to
innovation and changes to ease the challenges associated with the procedure of
application for the 2017 all Computer-Based Unified Tertiary Matriculation
Examination (UTME).“We are looking forward to announcing the commencement of
the sales of these documents very soon,” the statement quoted the registrar as
saying.The statement advised the public to feel free to contact the board for
clarification on its activities through its website or contact numbers whenever
they were in doubt.It noted that Mr. Oloyede had announced his willingness to
open the board’s door to the public to make valuable contributions and also
report any act against the board’s pedigree by either the staff or the board’s
development partners.“We must all be interested in what happens in JAMB, as it
is too important to be ignored.“Help us to watch over where our eyes cannot get
to, hear where our ears fail and be our police where our presence is
insufficient,” the statement said.It added that the Registrar had restated the
board’s determination to ensure that nobody was spared in sustaining and
advancing the credibility of the board.
Meanwhile, the board has hailed the judgment of the
National Industrial Court sustaining the sack of one of its former staff,
Cletus Uloko, in 2015.According to the statement, Mr. Uloko’s services were
terminated following acts of misconduct contrary to civil service rule.It said
Mr. Uloko was sacked because he was wrongfully in procession of over 120 e-slip
of candidates without authorisation and justification.The statement explained
that upon the development, Mr. Uloko was queried and on responding, his
explanation was not satisfactory to the board.It further said that the board
then constituted a disciplinary committee which recommended that Mr. Uloko ran
foul and breached all the extant civil service laws and therefore sacked
him.According to the statement, based on the termination of the appointment,
Mr. Uloko approached the National Industrialist Court to seek for redress,
compensation and reinstatement.
The statement explained that in a notification of
termination of suit made available by the JAMB legal team to the board said:
“We, by this letter, hereby notify the board that final judgment had been
delivered on the matter on September 27’’.The letter then noted that the court
dismissed the claimant’s suit.
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