UTME candidates to suffer the consequences of their parent’s bad behaviour – JAMB registrar reveals
According to Professor Ishaq Oloyede, the Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), candidates of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) will now bear responsibility if their parents interfere with the examination.
According to Oloyede, the testing body has already made the decision to hold UTME applicants accountable for the misdeeds committed by their parents.
In an interview with The Punch, he made this assertion.
“We are taking a decision now that we will make a candidate culpable once the mother or father or the parent of that person is found to have disrupted our examination.”
UTME candidates will suffer for parents bad behavior
According to the JAMB registrar, certain parents of UTME applicants attempted to prevent others from taking their exams due to a 30-minute cable problem.
According to Oloyede, the issue was successfully addressed; nonetheless, the applicants were unable to proceed with the examination as the session had already concluded as a result of the delay they experienced.
He stated that JAMB had to reorganise itself in order to serve as an alternative session for the initial session that was not attended.
“That was how parents insisted that the second and third sessions would not commence because their children couldn’t sit the first session. The centre had to bring in security agents to arrest the situation.
“What type of parents are these? We are now saying that any centre that allows a parent to get near where the candidates are being screened or being treated, that centre will be delisted. Secondly, we have instructed the centres to just identify the parent and the candidate, we would take a proper sanction, against the candidate.
“Whoever has a bad parent deserves to suffer the consequences of the bad behaviour of the parent. They cannot be destroying the careers of other students because of their own emotions and indiscipline.”
UTME candidates to suffer the consequences of their parent’s bad behaviour – JAMB registrar reveals