The
Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), has so far registered 600, 000
candidates for the 2017 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME)
across the country.
Dr
Fabian Benjamin, Head of Public Relations JAMB, made this known on Monday in an
interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Bwari, FCT.
He
said that JAMB was not going to extend the registration period, saying that
before deadline every candidate will register.
The
spokesman said that measures were on ground to ensure the regulated platform
could help candidates to get registered before the end of the month and to
prevent irregularities in registration.
Benjamin
observed that some applicants were seeking extension of the UTME registration
deadline due to irregularities in the ongoing registration process.
According
to him, it is wrong for any person to also think that there is inadequacy in
the number of centres stipulated to register candidates for the UTME.
“We
have already registered 600, 000 candidates since sales of form began March 20,
how can there be inadequate centres or lack of manpower, when we have more than
400 centres.
“There
is no such delay as alleged by some candidates, the issue here is that plenty
people are registering for the UTME at the same time.
“The
internet is working, if it is not working how then we arrived at the total of
600, 000 that have so far been duly registered.
“Large
numbers of applicants seeking to register for UTME go to the Banks allocated
for the exercise that is why there seem to be some form of delays and
irregularities.
“Before
we used three banks and now it is 15 banks because the period is short, but we
are not going to extend the registration period, before deadline every
candidate will register,” he said.
JAMB
spokesman told NAN that the initiative for use of the platform to register
candidates for the UTME was in line with the Board’s policy to ensure standards
operation.
He,
however, said that 25 persons have been arrested and handed over to the Police
for illegal registration and sale of the 2017 UTME materials to candidates
across the country.
He
mentioned that the suspects were arrested by a combined team of Anti-Corruption
and Transparency Unit (ACTU); members of the Nigerian Security and Civil
Defence Corps (NSCDC) and the NigeriaPolice Force.
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