JAMB: When truth hurts infinitely by Anthony Kolawole

Anthony Kolawole is a University lecturer from Keffi in Nasarawa state. In this new piece writes on challenges faced by Nigeria's tertiary institution examination body - Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB).Kolawole also decries the call for the resignation of the registrar of JAMB Ishaq Oloyede by some individuals and the state of Nigeria's education sector under the leadershipof President Muhammadu Buhari.Nigerians resent truth. They abhor it and seek to cage it within the prisms of their crooked instincts.When President Muhammadu Buhari launched the national re-orientation campaigns for attitudinal change tagged#ChangeBeginsWithMe#, many Nigerians never saw the wisdom. But successive events are now illuminating the necessity of the campaigns.There is nothing good leadership at any level orinstitution introduces that some dubious Nigerians would not contrive ways to defile it.Last week, the chairman, Academic Staff Unionof Universities (ASUU), University of Ibadan Chapter, Dr.Deji Omole canvassed for the resignation of the Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) Professor Ishaq Oloyede over the hiccups in the registration for Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) experiencedin some parts of the country.The academic from Uni-Ibadan, which currentlyhosts the national secretariat of ASUU, the body which remained the only odd voice that opposed Oloyede’s appointment on selfish grounds, posed like a nationalist and mouthpiece of ASUU. He unconvincingly decried the difficulties candidates are experiencing in registering for the exams online.But Dr.Omole, an academic knew, but failed to acknowledge that the introduction of the Computer Based Test (CBT) by JAMB was mainly to curb the high incidence of exam fraud.It was designed to ensure candidates presented by JAMB for admissions in higher institutions in the country were genuinely accessed as qualified for further studies in the courses they applied.But as it is typical with Nigerians, fraudsters invaded the process of UTME online and created difficulties in some states of the federation.And the fraudsters who invaded the system have also been arrested and are being prosecuted, an indication that the JAMB Registrar is alive and awake to his responsibilities.