Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Dibu Ojerinde, yesterday accused the management of an unnamed tertiary institution of sending the names of over 27 groundnut sellers to his organisation for regularization and mobilisation for the one-year compulsory National Youth Service Corps (NYSC).
The revelation came on the heels of the management of the NYSC accusing the management of tertiary institutions of frustrating full deployment of ICT in the mobilisation of corps members.
Ojerinde, who made the remark at the 2015 Batch ‘A’ Pre-mobilisation Workshop in Abuja yesterday, argued that he equally experienced some frustration from higher institutions and even his board members when he introduced the same biometrics in the conduct of JAMB examination.
“It is good that I have this opportunity to speak to the representatives of the higher institutions. I want to ask whether this trend of mobilising unqualified prospective corps members into the NYSC scheme was how you were mobilised during your own days.
“Most of the people here knew that we agreed since 2008 and even 2011 that there would be no more regularisation but up till yesterday, they were still coming. I want to say that there will be no more. Many of you admit students without normal procedure.
“There is a university where over 5,000 graduates were mobilised. We have to make a commitment to sanitise the system by doing the appropriate thing. There were 27 persons a particular institution mobilised for NYSC selling ‘pepper nut’ or groundnut in front of the university.
“A corps member was posted to JAMB to serve, the director under which he would serve said he could not write his name. We wondered how could that be and invited him to my office, asked him which university he attended, he simply replied ‘na UNN. I called the NYSC coordinator in Bwari to come and take your thing because I know he is not a corps member,” he said.
Speaking on the deployment of ICT in the mobilisation of corps members, Ojerinde commended the NYSC for the decision, noting that most of the Corps Producing Institutions (CPIs) “should be ashamed of themselves for resisting the noble change and sanity which NYSC is bringing to the system.”
Similarly, the Director General of the NYSC, Brig General J. B. Olawumi, in his opening remarks, accused some CPIs of not living up to the agreement of appropriately sensitising their graduating students on the benefits of the newly introduced ICT registration platform.
How was this POSSIBLE? Mr DIBU U are EXAGGERATING joor!
ReplyDeleteHow manage? How can an institution mobilize people who are not its students into the NYSC scheme and for what purpose? Does it mean that those "27 groundnut sellers" have already been awarded fake degrees and diplomas by the "na UNN" institution? For JAMB to establish that the men were groundnut sellers means they have investigated the matter. Is the Prof being sarcastic or does a group of 27 groundnut sellers decided to complete their trade with an NYSC certificate? Or is he lying? This is a very serious matter that should not be overlooked. We are aware of the rot in our educational system but is it this bad? If this is true then it means that racketeering in our educational institutions has reached an advanced stage- an organized crime.
ReplyDeleteEverfrank there are worst student of such in our university today. Buying their ways from stage one to final year. When you ask them to write their names. They will start sweating under a chilled air condition room. Government and school authorities should try stop student racketeering. It's not helping at all.
ReplyDeleteThis must be investigated properly because it is an indictment to my alma mata. Is somebody hired to pull down UNN? Are all the groundnut sellers from UNN? If not, why were the universities they came from not mentioned? The VC of UNN should take note and respond to this indictment.
ReplyDeleteAll of them NA UNN hahaha
DeleteThis one na wao. UNN una try. Next one go be Goro sellers too.
ReplyDeleteSHAMEFUL UNIVERSITY UNN
ReplyDeleteThis is unbelievable. How can educated people on our higher institution do this??? Is there hope for this country? We need to urgently do something about teaching morals from the primary school level
ReplyDeleteAll these are facts that we've all witness for the time being. Most of this grievous crime are being perpetrated by some of the institution officers even without the knowledge of the management. All they do is to include such name to nysc list, they create a fake CGPA under the name and issued a face certificate to back-it up. Is always a smooth and perfect operation trust me.
ReplyDeleteIs anyone suprised? Not me! I have seen worse situations. For instance I have seen graduates of English Language who couldn't construct a sentence in English. The truth is that corruption has finished the country. It has permeated every aspect of our life.
ReplyDeleteI cry for Naija.
ReplyDeleteWe should not be surprised cos we see corruption everywhere. Some ppl refuse to allow their children from taking d ideal educational steps rather they jump jump n jump classes n levels to only God knows where with bribes. Some of us are saying God forbid! While some did same. Dats y fake professionals are everywhere. May God help us!
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