ASUU President Fagge
THE Academic Staff Union of
Universities (ASUU) in the University of Ibadan has kicked against the
policy of reassignment of candidates against their choices being adopted
by the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB).
It said JAMB has made the admission
process chaotic and exposed candidates to fraudsters, adding that the
board must respect candidates’ preferences and choices for tertiary
institutions and consider the security of lives of candidates, cost,
proximity, quality, and rights of the Nigerian child in arriving at any
policy.
ASUU called on Nigerians to join in calling for the scrapping of JAMB, saying it has outlived its usefulness.
Its chairman, Prof. Segun Ajiboye,
described the policy as insensitive, exploitative of the children of the
poor and abuse of their fundamental human rights of freedom of choice.
The union lashed out at the Prof. Dibu
Ojerinde-led JAMB Board for allegedly being insensitive to the plight of
the masses, whose parents have not been paid for months by some
governors, but are now being forced to pay N1,000 to know where they are
reassigned against their choices.
In the absence of a substantive minister
of Education, the ASUU boss called on President Muhammadu Buhari to
call JAMB to order so as not to make the children of the masses in
public schools suffer.
Calling on the President to probe the
over N1 billion that would be generated from the purchase of scratch
cards of what he called ‘unpopular policy’, Ajiboye berated the racket
on the sale of scratch cards, which have been mopped up at JAMB offices
by agents who now sell it for N1,500 to candidates.
But JAMB explained that the policy to
redistribute candidates to needy institutions was done to assist the
candidates and their parents.
It noted that the ASUU UI chapter’s claim that it was anti-poor was not untrue.
It described the union’s claim that it
would make about N1 billion as proceeds from candidates buying cards to
check their redistribution status as unfounded.
It said the checking of candidates’ names will be free.
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