Our reporter visited some of the centres in Ojo/Agbara area of Lagos state.
There was a mild drama
in one of the three centres (Faculty of Arts with centre No 36102)
within the Lagos State University, Ojo. An official of the Nigerian
Security and Civil Defence Corps, one of the paramilitary bodies
deployed by JAMB to provide security for the examination, was caught
while trying to send some answers to some supposed candidates in the
examination halls through two cell phones.
A microchip with solutions to Mathematics (Type A), was also found on him. The NSCD officer who identified himself as Kazeem Adewale was caught by the men of the LASU security guards.
Adewale initially
denied, claiming the phones and microchips were given to him by his boss
another female office whom she simply identified as Adesanu. But
Adesanu denied the claim outright saying she neither gave the phones,
nor the microchips to Adewale.
The suspect was later handed over to the police deployed from Ojo for the exam.
The other two centres were- Faculty of Law with Centre No 36109 and Faculty of Management Sciences with Centre No 36010.
The coordinator of the
three centres Prof Sena Bakre who spoke to this reporter, urged JAMB
authorities to beam their searchlight more on NSCD officials, fingering
them as one of the abettors of examination rackets which are often
recorded during JAMB.
A Deputy Vice-Chancellor
(Academics) Bakre said she suspected Adewale’s atrocities probably had
the backing of his other colleagues especially his superiors at the
centres, adding that since he had been arrested, they became
suspiciously more nervous.
“For me, I no longer
find this civil defence people dependable again. They are usually the
ones that help many of these students get examinations answers either
via cell phones or any other means. I think the authority should do
something about this. This people have outlived their usefulness,” she
said.
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