Plenty of summons for Dibu Ojerinde because of his bad results this year.

Reactions trailing the mass failure of candidates in this
year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation
Examination,UTME,have continued as the House of
Representatives has summoned the Registrar of the
Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board,JAMB, Prof
Dibu Ojerinde.
Although investigations showed that the failure had a
lot to do with some of the candidates’ reliance on
answers provided by fraudsters, other candidates have
claimed that the use of computer affected their
performance.
The result of the examination as released by JAMB
showed many students scoring below 150, out of the
400 marks, with only 10 scoring above 300.
Speaking on the matter, Thursday, Chairman, House
Committee on Education, Hon. Aminu Suleiman said
that the summons became necessary due to series of
complaints and protests by a cross section of
Nigerians.
“We heard that JAMB authorities had formally
explained some reasons for the mass failure.
“This is not enough if the
content of the complaints of
Nigerians is anything to go by. One of the complaints
concerns the usage of computer for the exam that
most of them had never had contact with before.
“It can be recalled that the House passed a resolution
asking JAMB not to use computer for the 2013 exams
and they said they would make it optional; but there
were still complaints by candidates that some of them
filled the manual or paper option only to find
themselves being asked to write the exams using
computers”, he said.
The lawmaker added that the mass failure might not be
unconnected with the introduction of computers for
the exams, bearing in mind that most candidates,
especially from Government secondary schools were
not exposed to computer before.
Accordingly, he said the committee was poised to
finding a lasting solution to the perennial failure of
Nigerians in the last JAMB examination.