JAMB: Enforce Mobile Courts For Examination Malpractice- Ex-Registrar

The former registrar, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof Bello Salim has urged the board to enforce mobile courts for examination malpractice and offenders in the country.

Recall that the results of over 30,000 candidates were withheld by JAMB on the premise of examination malpractices. 

Salim, in a JAMB bulletin released on Sunday, lamented the slow pace of prosecution of examination offenders.

He urged current JAMB registrar, Prof Is-haq Oloyede, to enforce mobile courts as examinations had gone digital. 

He said the law governing the conduct of examination should go digital as well and fast-tracking trials were needed so that examination malpractice cases did not get bogged down in courts. 

He said, “Examination malpractice is a global malaise. The battle is ongoing; we haven’t won it. When you present examination malpractice suspects at the beginning of August, for instance, and a court hearing is fixed for the middle of October, the hearing is adjourned almost as soon as it starts to maybe January. The court process will thus keep dragging on.

“Let there be mobile courts just like the election tribunals to treat all cases of examination malpractices and other unwholesome practices promptly. We should have penalties that are enforceable. The prescribed seven-year jail term for anyone involved in examination malpractices should be enforced.”