As Ministries, Department, and Agencies (MDA's) continue to defend their budget before the National Assembly (NASS), the committee on Tertiary Education and Services yesterday commended the registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, over the remittance of N3bn to the federation account.
They gave the commendation when Oloyede was making his presentation after the Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, had defended the ministry’s 2020 budget estimates.
A member of the Senate Committee on Tertiary Education, Sam Egwu, commended Oloyede for repositioning the JAMB “from negativity to positivity”, testifying that when he (Egwu) was Minister of Education, Oloyede was among the top vice-chancellors of universities in the country.
In the same vein, Senator Tolu Odebiyi and Honorable Musbau Kolawole commended Oloyede for turning the Board around.
Oloyede, while reviewing the 2019 budget performance, said the JAMB had, since 2017, stopped receiving capital and overhead allocations from the Federal Government and had taken over the total funding of its capital and overhead cost.
Oloyede told the lawmakers that “a major problem of the Board is examination malpractice and the involvement of parents who actually are the perpetrators of examination malpractice.”
The Board chief stressed that the agency under his watch shall aspire to make higher returns next year while making considerable improvement in the quality of its services.
He was eventually asked to take a bow and go by the Co-chairmen, Senator Ahmed Baba Kaita, and Honorable Aminu Suleiman.
