‘JAMB Didn’t Target Baptist Girls Academy’

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has urged the public to disregard the impression that the media trial of a teacher and some students of Baptist Girls Academy was planned by the board.
The board’s position was contained in a statement by its Head of Public Affairs and Protocols, Dr Fabian Benjamin, titled, ‘Re: Prof Oloyede’s Media Trial Of Baptist Girls Academy: The True Story.’
Benjamin explained that the board’s Registrar, Prof Ishaq Oloyede, was on a scheduled inspection of the ongoing 2021 UTME registration exercise in the South-West to assess the performance of the exercise across geopolitical zones.
He added that the registrar was answering questions from journalists who drew his attention to the students from Baptist Girls Academy who after being asked said they paid N8,000 as against the approved N4,700 for the examination.
According to the statement, Oloyode met with their teacher who denied that the student paid higher than the stipulated fees but the students insisted.
The statement further explained that the Registrar knowing that there are administrative channels of addressing such abnormalities, called on the most senior journalist at the interview session not to publish the encounter as it should be considered an off-record incident and he was given an assurance by all the reporters through their senior colleague.
The statement read, “The attention of the board has been drawn to some misconceptions making the rounds on the encounter of the Registrar, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, with a group of students, including some from the Baptist Girls Academy, Lagos.
“The board wishes to correct the erroneous impression that Baptist Girls Academy was specifically targeted by the board during the Registrar’s inspection tour.
“The Registrar was on a scheduled inspection of the ongoing 2021 UTME registration exercise in the South-West. As in the tradition of all board’s chief executives, he came to assess the performance of the exercise across the geopolitical zones.