SCORES of Joint Admissions Matriculation Board, JAMB, candidates and members of Association of Tutorial School Owners of Nigeria, yesterday, protested against what they described as the poor conduct and outcome of the recent examination conducted by the board. Students from different parts of Lagos State, on the platform of Association of Tutorial Colleges of Nigeria, protesting the results of Joint Admission Matriculation Board, JAMB’s Computer-Based Test, CBT, at Lagos State House of Assembly, yesterday. Photo: Bunmi Azeez. The protests which took place in Lagos and Ilorin were largely peaceful even as the protesters demanded for the resignation of the Registrar of the examination board, Prof Dibu Ojerinde. The placard carrying admission seekers in Lagos, marched to the Lagos State House of Assembly demanding for the resignation or dismissal of Prof Ojerinde. At the scene of the protest, Vanguard gathered that most of the aggrieved protesters blamed the leadership of JAMB for their failures, adding that the electronic devices used for the examination malfunctioned.

Speaking, a protester, Mr. Kalejaiye Joshua said; ‘’When the result came out my English was 37, Mathematics, which I am not good at, I got 47. My total score was 220, but when I went to print it out yesterday, I saw 164. It is unfair. I spent eight hours to Igbajo Polytechnic, in Osun State from Ketu, Lagos.’’ Reacting to the development, the board’s Head of Media, Dr. Fabian Benjamin accused proprietors of private schools, whose facilities were not used for the examination of being behind the protests. Benjamin in a statement said: ‘’The protests were being sponsored by some proprietors whose examination centres were lacking in all the indices needed for a successful Computer Based Test (CBT) examination.’’ “The attention of the Board has been drawn to a planned protest tomorrow over the Board’s activities by individuals who called themselves education consultants. JAMB has called for calm and advised candidates to always avail themselves of the opportunity provided by the board through its public complaints unit to vent their grievances and not to allow blackmailers use them for any selfish interest.”

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