The Joint Admission And Matriculation Board JAMB has issued warning to parents about some schools using the board’s name to extort money.
JAMB in a statement via the Board’s Head, Media, and Information, Dr Fabian Benjamin, in Lagos on Sunday night advised parents not to give in to any form of extortion during and after the 2020 UTME registration.
Below is the full statement,
“It has come to the knowledge of the Board that some elite schools are using the name of the Board to extort a huge sum of money from parents under the guise that the Board has ordered such payments.
“The Board wishes to make it clear that unlike the West African Examinations Council (WAEC), the National Examinations Council (NECO) and others, the UTME and the Direct Entry (DE) registration and examination exercises are not school-based.
“As such, schools have no role whatsoever in the Board’s operational processes.
“This is because these exercises require only the participation and engagement of individual candidates.
“Consequently, schools that are using the name of the Board to swindle parents of a large sum of money for the purpose of registration or other services, are hereby warned to desist forthwith,” Benjamin said.
