A civil society group, Network for the Actualisation of Social Growth and Viable Development (NEFGAD) has called for the immediate suspension of the Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Professor Ishaq Oloyede.
The group said this is to allow for a seamless forensic investigation of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination(UTME) of Ejikeme Mmesoma.
Coordinator of the group, Mr Akingunola Omoniyi, in a press statement on Tuesday, describe the controversy surrounding the 2023 UTME result of Mmesoma as a national embarrassment.
The statement read in part: “Mmesoma has spoken out on the claim of JAMB that she forged her own results and raised posers for JAMB. The girl could not have perpetrated the crime JAMB alleged and everything seems to suggest that the JAMB system has been heavily compromised.
“It is a national embarrassment and we’re calling on the authorities to ask the JAMB Registrar to step aside and allow a forensic investigation of the 2023 UTME results to find out the truth about what happened.
“If the candidate was the one that truly cheated, she should face disciplinary actions to deter others and if it is JAMB that was negligent and allowed its system to be compromised, the Registrar should be sacked.”
