By Admin
The Deputy Speaker, Federal House of Representatives, Mr Benjamin Kalu has called for an Independent System Audit of the Joint Admissions Matriculation Board JAMB to forestall the repeat of the challenges that accompanied the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME.
Briefing Journalists in Abuja on Sunday, Mr. Kalu tasked JAMB to provide an accessible mechanism for remark and appeal, especially for those dissatisfied with the hurried resit or who experienced technical difficulties during the second sitting.
The Deputy Speaker who sympathized with the affected candidates and the their parents over the trauma they went through,charged JAMB to implement stronger deployment validation protocols and real-time monitoring mechanisms to prevent recurrence of the 2025 UTME Challenges.
”Every system update must be thoroughly tested and confirmed across all server clusters before deployment during high-stakes examinations” he said
“JAMB should proactively publish anonymized, candidate-level result data for independent verification and to open its systems to Freedom of Information (FOI) requests as a gesture of transparency and accountability.This will go a long way in rebuilding public trust.” he added
Mr. Kalu, while expressing concerns over the quick resit of the UTME examinations, called for immediate review of all available technical and independent reports including those from third-party educational technology companies that have gathered candidate-level data to fully understand the scope and implications of the crisis.
The Deputy Speaker who commended the Registrar of JAMB, Professor Isiaqa Oloyede for his boldness for admitting to his fault noted that the integrity of any National examination must not be compromised on technical issues.
”This was not a failure of our students, nor a deliberate act of sabotage, but a preventable human error within our system”.
”We must not underestimate the toll this has taken. Parents and candidates have voiced legitimate concerns about the hurried scheduling of resit examinations, the overlap with ongoing WAEC assessments, the psychological strain, and the logistical burdens of traveling to distant centres on short notice” he emphasized
He assured Nigerians that the National Assembly stands ready to provide oversight functions and reforms that will improve the nation’s education sector
