According to the Registrar, Professor Dibu
Ojerinde, the board has records of candidates
who genuinely missed their tests due to sudden
relocation from their original centers.
The Registrar said that candidates were relocated
from some centers in Lagos to Moro in Osun
State and others from Uromi to Auchi in Edo State
because mercenaries and thugs invaded those
centers.
He also accused some independent centers of
insincerity, leading to abrupt relocation of some
candidates.
Asked what his position would be on the new
directives from the House of Representatives to
return to pencil and paper format or combine this
with the computer-based system, the Registrar
said that he would take instructions from the
Minister of Education.
He said that those who organized protests did so
out of frustrations because they were not allowed
to carry out their plans in those centers.
Complaints ranging from non-provision of
calculator, irregular shutting down of computers
and non-release of the results of the students
have trailed the 2016 JAMB examination.
A member of the Association of Private Coaching
Centers, Olawuyi Olufemi, has also questioned
the supposed allocation of 40 marks to some
students; an act which he said was not clear,
wondering how some candidates would benefit
while others would be exempted.
Disgruntled candidates have also urged JAMB to
find a lasting solution to alleged irregularities and
requested that the body should urgently release
the results still outstanding.
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