The South-East Senate caucus has voiced concerns over a ‘curious and highly suspicious’ JAMB examination glitch that affected centres in Lagos State and, significantly, the entire South-East during the recent Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination.
In a statement issued on Saturday in Abuja by its chairman, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, representing Abia South, the caucus said it would be disheartening and hoped not to contemplate such a conspiracy theory, “that there is a narrow agenda being pursued to deliberately shortchange and harm the future of our children.”
Though the caucus, after a careful assessment of the reports of the ugly incident, noted with cautious optimism the efforts being made to mitigate the near disaster, particularly the rescheduling of the examination, it, warned that a future reoccurrence will be unacceptable.
Nonetheless, South-East Senators, he added, welcomed the timely acceptance of fault as expressed through the open declaration of regrets and tearful apology by the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board management, particularly its Registrar, Professor Ishaq Oloyede.
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Notwithstanding, the South-East Federal lawmakers, according to Senator Abaribe, hoped and warned that such a display of penitence in public would not be an effort to mask a future sinister agenda aimed at harming the educational advancement of children of the South-East region.
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“The so-called glitch, as curious and suspicious as it was, is enough to erode confidence and dangerously lower national pride among the future generation.
“The relevant national education drivers must recognise the inherent danger of injecting hateful politics and narrow parochial considerations into both policy enunciation and its implementation.
“That the glitch happened in the whole of South East raises pertinent questions that must be answered by JAMB to assuage the growing frustrations and fears among the people of the region, particularly the children who are directly at the receiving end. We must pursue a Nigerian agenda and not a narrow one that will ultimately injure national unity
“Education remains one of the most important bedrocks of any society’s advancement. It is one major index of development in every facet of life that can never be faulted. Education is a major pivot that triggers national development. Every child is entitled to it, therefore, we must not play roulette with it?” Abaribe declared.
Therefore, he said the South-East Senate Caucus was on alert and under pressure as it unequivocally demands firm assurance from JAMB and other relevant national educational policy drivers that there will never be a recurrence of such scandalous glitch in the future.
Notwithstanding, the South-East Federal lawmakers, according to Senator Abaribe, hoped and warned that such a display of penitence in public would not be an effort to mask a future sinister agenda aimed at harming the educational advancement of children of the South-East region
