JAMB WILL START THE USE OF CCTV CAMERAS TO CURB EXAMINATION MALPRACTICE

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation
Board (JAMB) has revealed plans are being made to install Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras in all computer-based centres to be l accredited for the registration of 2017 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).



JAMB registrar, Professor Ishaq Oloyede, revealed this during an interactive meeting with operators of CBT centres from across the country, at the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Daily
Independent reports.



Oloyede said the introduction of the
CCTV’s will help to monitor whatever is
going on at the centres. He also stated that the new process will exclude many cybercafe operators as the computer-based centres to be accredited
must have 250 desktop or laptop systems in a single room, with provision for additional 25 systems as back-ups.



In his words “What we have said is that
we are in a period of change, and what
that means is that everything we have
been doing must be reviewed. Whatever we have been doing rights will have to be reinforced while what were doing wrongly will be changed.



“For the purpose of the CBT centres, we
have to introduce the CCTV so that
whatever that is going on at our centres
can be monitored anywhere in the world. “We are also standardizing the CBT centres so that all CBT centres will have 250 computers with 10 per cent of the figure as backups.”


Jamb also came out to clarify Nigerians that it's sale of 2017 jamb application form is yet to be out and admonished all Nigerians to disregard any contrary claim.