The National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, has kicked against the eligibility regulation put in place by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, describing it as “malicious, mischievous, savage, lame and nonsensical”.
This was contained in a statement issued on Wednesday by the South-West zone of NAN signed by its General Secretary, Obanobi Bidemi and Public Relations Officers, Olatinwo Jeremiah.
Wondering why students should be posted to schools they never applied for and which are beyond the means of their parents, NANS tasked JAMB to explain what it means by choice of institution, threatening that it would mobilize over five million students across the six states of the South-West including affected students to the headquarter of JAMB if the policy is not reversed immediately.
The group further alleged that, “The mass failure recorded this year was an intentional act of the admission board so as to skew and enforce 250 as cutoff mark for public institutions and in turn send students who didn’t meet up to private institutions. NANS unequivocally rejects this”.
According to him, “We saw this trend coming from last year when the myopic board reduced the options of institution of choice from six to three claiming it is to save students from the fraudulent activities of tertiary institutions in the process of admitting students.
“We call on the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to begin a probe into the accounts of the admission board, its registrar and top echelon as it has been paid by proprietors of private tertiary institutions hence the bastardization of the admission exercise – a great semblance to the scandal that rocked the world football governing body, FIFA.
“Nigerian students pass a vote of no confidence in the JAMB registrar and hereby call for the immediate sack of the JAMB registrar, Prof. Dibu Ojerinde,” the student body noted.
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