The
Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), University of Ibadan chapter, has
faulted the guidelines released by the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board
(JAMB) for admission of candidates into Nigerian tertiary institutions stating
that JAMB acted beyond its powers.
According
to the union, the Senate of Nigerian Universities has the mandate to regulate
admission modalities as each university has standards which are not subjected
to the whims and caprices of any government appointee.
Speaking,
the Chairman of the union, Dr. Deji Omole, said both the Minister of Education,
Mallam Adamu Adamu, and JAMB Registrar, Prof. Dibu Ojerinde, first got it wrong
by going against the administrative charges collected by institutions for
post-UTME and later reversed their stand in their guidelines which he described
as illegal and designed to favour children of the rich against the poor.
He
mentioned that the point-based scoring system in the guidelines is not new as
it has been used in UI 5 years ago and abandoned.
He
equally stated that JAMB is only trying to cover up their inadequacies as its
credibility is yearly queried. He pointed out that last year candidates were
pushed to private universities against their will and this year JAMB awarded 40
marks to some candidates without justification.
He
further mentioned that with the stipulation on the current guidelines many
candidates will be disadvantaged and JAMB would have succeeded in entrenching
corruption and further kill tertiary education in the country.