Period of pay and sin not any more finished in JAMB

The Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, talks on the misrepresentation revealed in the JAMB state workplaces among different issues in this meeting with OLALEYE ALUKO

In the 2018 UTME, the board recorded various denied things. It is safe to say that you are not made a big deal about the prohibition on wristwatches and eyeglasses especially?

Truly, we have recorded the things which are denied from the examination with reasons. For example, it isn't that eyeglasses are completely disallowed. We have a rundown of specific eyeglasses that we know are being utilized for illegal purposes. Such eyeglasses are being distinguished and appeared to our managers with a view to preventing anybody from wearing such transferable or open eyeglasses.

In any case, wristwatches of any sort are disallowed in light of the fact that we are putting divider checks in the CBT focuses. Pens and biros are additionally precluded for evident reasons. Just pencils are permitted and they ought to be customary pencils. Cell phones and other electronic gadgets stay restricted. Perusing glasses, which could impart, would likewise be prohibited.

Other prohibited gadgets are number crunchers, USB and other stockpiling gadgets, cameras, recorders, receivers, earpieces, rings, pen perusers, rings, gems, keen catches and bluetooth gadgets. These are every one of the gadgets that we have distinguished as apparatuses of examination misbehaviors and they have been restricted.

What has extremely changed in the UTME enlistment between a year ago and now?

In the event that you take a gander at our insights, anybody, who isn't intelligent, will imagine that we have less hopefuls this year than a year ago. In principle, that might be valid yet it isn't valid by and by. A year ago, the time when understudies paid was the point at which they produced the profile at banks and there were around 1.7 million applicants who paid for the profile. The quantity of the individuals who created the pins was lesser contrasted with the quantity of applicants who sat for the exams. However this year, we have taken a few measures that would avoid individuals who don't have to pay from making installment.

This year, we permitted free age of profile codes. Presently, we have 1,973,081 who have created the profile codes which is higher than a year ago. In any case, that isn't the quantity of individuals who paid. The quantity of the individuals who paid is 1,662,778 which are the individuals who purchased the PIN for the UTME. If it somehow managed to be a year ago, more than 1.9million hopefuls would have paid once more.

This year, we are stating 'don't pay until the point when you are enrolled'. We are not intrigued by cash but rather we are likewise not keen on discarding cash. Anyone who does not have to pay ought not pay. Another progression we took for the current year is that last year, similar competitors took the UTME and the Direct Entry shapes independently. In any case, this year, we have told hopefuls that they don't have to purchase two structures. In the event that you purchase the UTME frame, and you at that point have Advanced levels, there is arrangement for move up to Direct Entry level, which is for nothing out of pocket.

We have likewise demoralized those copying and purchasing various structures keeping in mind the end goal to pick a ton of alternatives. That has been killed for this present year. We have told hopefuls that any individual who purchased in excess of one frame for the 2018 examination will be precluded.

What is the report on the examinations concerning the assertions of misrepresentation executed by the board authorities and what is the board's best course of action?

For the general population who stole our cash, we gave them an opportunity. I mean those individuals who stole the JAMB's cash. When I came in, I simply didn't ask for who stole what. We just told everybody 'represent whatever cash that is with you'. We are not reviewers but rather we discovered that a few people can't represent past monies.

The primary alternative we gave was that 'pay back whatever that is with you'. Each one of those officers who paid back what they had with them, had no issue and they stayed on their occupations.

In any case, the individuals who felt that they had stolen the cash and that they were not prepared to make any discount were given over to the security organizations. It isn't for me to decide if they will be indicted or not. They had delighted in the benefit of installment without arraignment in any case yet they didn't take that choice.

In the event that they discount the cash to the police or the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, and they are given an alternative of request dealing, that is as yet open. Be that as it may, that isn't inside my domain.

Inside this time allotment, do you have a gauge of what amount has been paid into the coffers of the Federal Government?

I won't have the capacity to state that with particular confirmation. What a few officers expected to pay in 2014, 2015 and 2016 and in 2017, which they are presently paying in 2018, you realize that everything will backpedal to the coffers of the administration.

Aside from the police and the EFCC, which different offices are engaged with the examination and indictment? 

We are making utilization of fundamental government foundations including the security offices like the police, the EFCC, the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps, the Department of State Services and everyone has been extremely useful. The National Information Technology Development Agency and the Nigerian Communications Commission are likewise included.

We have gotten participation from different offices in observing these fakes and other sharp practices.

We would not have had the fortitude to identify a portion of the things we are distinguishing notwithstanding the participation of these offices.

Do you have the quantity of JAMB ex-authorities being examined by these offices? 

I wouldn't have the capacity to state the number since it is a continuous examination. Despite everything we sent individuals out on examination a week ago. I have been telling my associates in JAMB that no one ought to participate in misrepresentation once more. Anybody got by this organization to have engaged with sharp practices will confront indictment. We will be as merciless as could reasonably be expected. There will be no choice of pay back and sin no more once more.

As per the Treasury Single Account strategy, no JAMB official should gather money from anybody. Any individual who gathers money has damaged our laws. Indeed, even in situations where we should gather cash and there is no simple method to gather the cash, we will offer the administration free.

A case of this is competitors who sat for the deride examination last Monday in the CBT focuses claimed by JAMB did not pay the N700 that their associates in other CBT focuses paid.

What challenges do you have with the Central Processing Admission System a year ago that you wish to amend in 2018? 

The CAPS has been a decent affair for all gatherings in the confirmation framework. I have addressed my associates over the foundations and they are extremely upbeat. All great individuals will be content with CAPS however it likewise has a few threats for the individuals who don't need straightforwardness in what they are doing.

Tops drew out a level-playing ground for every one of the competitors, yet this does not imply that there are no spaces for upgrades. A year ago, there were objections about how to utilize CAPS. In any case, we prepared in excess of 1,000 affirmation officers, bad habit chancellors, executives and ministers on the utilization of CAPS. We trust that this year, they would not should be retrained. They would basically should be refreshed.

It is watched that last year, the board gave one month for the enrolment of competitors, however the board gave two months in 2018 and with an expansion. What achieved this long length? 

In 2017, we felt that one month was sufficient in light of the fact that throughout the years, 90 for every penny of the hopefuls typically enrolled for the UTME inside a month. Be that as it may, this year, there was pointless trepidation from general society that how would you enlist 1.7million inside a month? But since a few people were keen on doing some illegal things and were engaged with the battle for augmentation, there was a ton of weight on us and we additionally broadened it by two weeks.

This year, we said let us have two months for the enlistment. However, for the first month in the current year, we enrolled under 5 for every penny. So all the 95 for each penny of the enlistment occurred over the most recent one month. In this way, when it was a few days to the end, there was weight on us and we additionally stretched out by seven days. What's more, that was the point at which we finished the activity.

It has a suggestion. Some fraudsters, under the Association of Tutorial Classes, coerce cash from guardians, searching for unique inquiries and guaranteeing they would help the applicants. Be that as it may, this year, since they fizzled and bombed woefully in all their unlawful practices, they are searching for space for those hopefuls they guaranteed control to upset our exercises.

We have their documents with us here and we will hand over every one of them to the security offices. They are proficient blackmailers. They go going to assemble nonconformists and phony group to request undue augmentation. There is one of them who has been doing this labor for a long time. I have a tab on them and at the fitting time, I will demonstrate them.

The Sultan of Sokoto and other prominent Nigerians went to a book introduction in your respect on Wednesday. Is it safe to say that you were expecting such introduction?

Truly, I was expecting it after I had been told about it, a few months prior. I consented to that demand which was made by my associates who are my previous Ph.D understudies.

What do you need Nigerians to detract from that occasion? 

It is only that there are still great individuals in Nigeria. I did pretty much nothing or nothing to help those associates of mine and they completed a great deal to empower me. It is characteristic of the way that what small amount you do, there are still individuals who will value you.

With around two years at the headship of JAMB, are there still regions or difficulties you need to address in the board? 

Obviously, there are such huge numbers of things to be done in any living association. Also, this is an association which is a developing concern. The administration wil