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JAMB Registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyode
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board on Sunday introduced that it has sanctioned some officers over the harassment of a feminine Hijab-wearing candidate.
The feminine candidate who sat her Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination on the Bafuto Institute, Ile-Iwe Bus Cease, Ejigbo, Lagos was mentioned to have been requested to take away her headcover in the course of the accreditation course of earlier than being allowed into the examination corridor.
Addressing the problem in an announcement signed by the Head of Public Affairs of the Board, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, the Board famous that it deeply regretted the incident.
It mentioned on investigation, it found that the incident or others up to now weren’t linked to any of its examination tips however relatively a product of the misplaced precedence of a few of the Board’s accredited companions or officers who claimed ignorance of the its tips on accreditation.
The assertion learn, “This case was immediately addressed by a senior official of the Board on the middle and the candidate in query was allowed in after the same old checks along with her hijab.
“Nonetheless, since ignorance of the legislation just isn’t an excuse, the officers have been appropriately sanctioned to function a deterrent to others, who may want to toe the identical line going ahead.
“It’s worthy of notice that the Board, as a nationwide establishment, has no coverage barring candidates from sporting the non secular paraphernalia peculiar to their non secular persuasions as these are the info of on a regular basis life in Nigeria, which everybody ought to have been conversant in by now.”
Moreover, the Board assured most people that the problem could be correctly investigated as to forestall a recurrence.
“The Board is dedicated to the discharge of its statutory position of making certain that suitably certified candidates are chosen for admission into the nation’s tertiary establishments and wouldn’t permit something or anybody to detract it from the pursuit of this noble purpose,” it reiterated.
In the meantime, the conduct of 2024 UTME, which commenced on Friday, nineteenth April 2024, has been marred with experiences of technical glitches as over 1.2 million candidates would have efficiently taken the examination by Monday, twenty second April 2024.
