2012 Jamb Utme Witheld Results Candidates Will Be Prosecuted

Do you know that the education stakeholders in the country have called for the immediate prosecution of all candidates allegedly involved in malpractice during the just concluded Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) organised by the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB)?

 The stakeholders said that those 27,266 that were being withheld for examination malpractice should be properly prosecuted.  Why? Reason is because so that in the nearest future, such will not repeat itself and other coming behind will learn one or two lessons from them. 

Separate interviews were conducted and the stakeholders has expressed the urgent need to prosecute such offenders immedidately. Mr Femi Omokungbe being the Chairman, Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP), Yaba College of Technology chapter, expressed his feelings  about the suituation and I quote

Government must be alive to its responsibility by ensuring the prosecution of examination cheats. ``There is a provision in the constitution to prosecute any candidate found involved in any form of examination malpractice. ``As long as no action is taken against those found culpable, examination malpractice would continue to persist among our youths. ``We must seek a way of punishing offenders to serve as deterrent to others. What we just witnessed during the release of results by the JAMB Registrar-- where we saw handsets built into slippers-- is a clear sign of the level of corruption in the country,”


Prof. Ukachukwu Awuzie, President, Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) also had his say. He said that the outcome of the March 24 examination showed the total collapse of the education sector.

In conclusion, Prof. Awuzie said that the challenge is not for the government alone, but should rather be a collective effort of all the stakeholders. A call that must be answers by all stakeholders.