Agents who violate the registration rules for the 2022 UTME will be blacklisted by JAMB
Agents who break the JAMB registration 2022 regulations will be blacklisted for the 2022 UTME, according to JAMB.
Touchaheart Nigeria reports that the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has said that any vendors or their representatives who breach its guidelines will be blacklisted for the 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination.
Prof Is’haq Oloyede, the Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), revealed this in Ibadan on Saturday, March 6, 2022, while overseeing the registration exercise at several centers, according to this online news site.
The JAMB Registrar, who said he was impressed and satisfied with the registration process at the centers he visited, said parental engagement was one of the issues encountered during the ongoing UTME registration for 2022.
“There are few places where it could be better but here at the University of Ibadan, it has been very excellent.
“Some CBT centres, vendors and agents will be blacklisted, the implication is that if you do not follow the rules, you do not have the right to our accreditation,” he said.
Part of the quality assurance method, according to the JAMB chief, is to allow a candidate to know who is enrolling him or her.
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“The purpose of that is that a candidate sits in front of the screen for about six to seven minutes and he or she will be seeing the large picture of the person registering.
“It is possible that if there are problems, the person will be able to recognise the person who registered him or her.
“But, If you minimise that picture and that candidate cannot identify you in case of a problem, that is a violation of one of our rules.
“Follow the rules you need not think for us because we have a purpose for what we are doing,” the registrar said.
“If someone who is vending the pin at the particular area is continuously selling more than N4,700, those registering here (at a certain centre) ought to know, and if they don’t, then we will hold them liable for not being watchful since it is within their premises,” the JAMB boss stated.
“But we will not hold them responsible for the charges because every pin sold, we know the vendor, so we could trace the vendor, we call E-transact or System Spec Remita, but all of them at the face value they will sell at N4,700.
“It is possible that if there are problems, the person will be able to recognise the person who registered him or her.
“But, If you minimise that picture and that candidate cannot identify you in case of a problem, that is a violation of one of our rules.
“Follow the rules you need not think for us because we have a purpose for what we are doing,” the registrar said.
On those selling above the official price of N4700, Oloyede said, “If someone who is vending the pin at the particular place is selling consistently more than N4,700, those registering here (at a particular centre) ought to know and if not, then we will hold them responsible for not being vigilant because it is within their premises.
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“But we will not hold them responsible for the charges because every pin sold, we know the vendor, so we could trace the vendor, we call E-transact or System Spec Remita, but all of them at the face value they will sell at N4,700.
“But their agents may collect more than that, like a woman that collected more and pocketed N1000 by selling the form at N5700; because Etransact will not sell above N4,700, but the agents are exhorting them.
“That is why we say, vendors must know their customers, those who are their agents.
”Therefore, if your pin is sold a quarter above N4,700, we will hold you responsible and that is why we invited three banks yesterday and mobile money operators and gave them a warning.
“We also gave them evidence that their agents are fraudulent and we have blacklisted those agents who would never be allowed to participate in any activities of JAMB because we know their names and NIN. That was why we said anybody vending we must have their name and NIN,” he said.
Oloyede said the implication of the blacklist is that “when the person is blacklisted our server will not allow him or her work anywhere related to JAMB.
“And, even if the person wants to be a student, our server will tell us to mark the person as someone who is not to be trusted. So we will now tell the university that this person you want to admit this is his or her record.”
He stated that roughly 600,000 candidates had been enrolled as of the time of the monitoring exercise, out of a target of 1.5 million.
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According to the registrar, provided there is no disruption in the registration procedure, no serious candidate will be left out by March 26, when registration closes.
He mentioned that the board has put in place steps to build on previous technological accomplishments.
“We are also checking our system to be sure that it is doing OK and so far so good. We are trying to consolidate only adding one or two additions in the examination site this year,” Oloyede said.
