Abuja, Nigeria – Officials at the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) headquarters in Benin City, Edo State have been warned to desist from the illegal act of demanding bribes from final year students, who are currently scrambling to get official JAMB Admission letters, as a precondition for their exit from school.
This call was made by a renowned international conflict resolution expert and human rights activist, Comrade Igbotako Nowinta, via a signed press release he gave to journalists on January 24th, 2024, in Abuja.
Comrade Nowinta who doubles as the Executive Director, Nigeria Good Governance Research Centre, said it is “Most pathetic and condemnable to know that helpless final year students, mostly from Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, Edo State, seeking to get stipulated official JAMB Admission letters as a precondition to exit from school are being subjected to part with some money before they would be attended to”.
According to the full text of the press release: “Our attention has been drawn to an unpalatable development currently going on at the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board ( JAMB) headquarters in Benin City, Edo State, where final year students seeking to regularize their JAMB Admission letters are being short changed by some greedy officials”.
“Ir is most pathetic and condemnable to know that helpless final year students, mostly from Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, Edo State, seeking to get stipulated official JAMB Admission letters as a precondition to exit from school are being subjected to part with some money before they would be attended to”.
“We have been reliably informed that these students travel from far distances, and spends more than twenty four hours waiting helplessly to get their JAMB regularized Admission letters done, because some JAMB officials allegedly frustrate them by taking bribes from some financially comfortable students (popularly known as yahoo boys), who were in a hurry to be attended to; even these shameful and greedy staff at the JAMB office allegedly demands between ten to fifteen thousand naira”.
“Must law abiding and innocent Nigerians go through unnecessary pains and stress all the time in the name of getting certain things done? We are using this medium to call on those JAMB staff to stop this abominable practice of taking bribes and frustrating these group of students”.
