The Leadership of the National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN) has backed the decision of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) to deregister 22 Computer Based Test (CBT) Operators over the allegation of extortion.
Jamb Registrar, Professor Isiaq Oloyede had in a Zoom meeting on August 27, proscribed the 22 CBT centres for allegedly “bypassing the system and charging the students as much as N5,000 for a process which they were licensed to charge N200 only.”
However, the President of the Computer-Based Test Centres Proprietors Association in Nigeria, Maxwell Akwuruoha while reacting to the deregistration accused the JAMB Registrar of undermining the CBT operators so as to build its mega centres across the country.
Reacting to this, the leadership of NYCN under its President, Amb Sukubo Seraigbe Sukubo said it’ll not allow “Akwuruoha to drag the Nigerian youths into his well-deserved travails.”
He said the management of JAMB exercised its right to deregister the centres in the interest of preserving the integrity of its process.
“While we acknowledge that there were some errors, on the part of JAMB’s technical services provider, as happens from time to time even under the watch of technology giants, there is no excuse for
the CBT operators to have circumvented the process and capitalize on the loophole to exploit Nigerian youth and “alleged that the fraud was committed to allow innocent Young Nigerians meet up deadlines.
“The CBT operators involved should count themselves lucky that they were only axed from JAMB and that they were not sued for attempting to smear and defame the good name of JAMB as an organization.” Sukubo said.
