Many Institutions Issuing Fake Certificates For NYSC Mobilisation — JAMB Registrar

Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board
(JAMB), Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, has said many tertiary institutions
still mobilise or award certificates to people who never attended
the institutions.

Oloyede spoke at the 2021 Batch “B” pre-mobilisation workshop
organised by the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) yesterday in
Abuja.

The workshop was attended by representatives of tertiary
institutions and other stakeholders.

Oloyede said: “There are many ways that corps members and their
collaborators take towards corrupting the system. The longer you
stay in this system, the more shocked you are likely to become.

“Many institutions still engage in mobilising or awarding
certificates to people who didn’t attend the institutions. You are
in a position to know because you run Interim Joint Matriculation
Board (IJMB) and others. How many of these students are actually
your students? Go on the streets of Nigeria and you will see IJMB
coaching. These candidates are not supposed to be attending
roadside coaching. They are supposed to be in your
institutions.

“In Abuja here, you can count 100, and they will publicly put
IJMB training. Who are they training? Who are their lecturers? It
is just an avenue because they know that they will harvest these
children and just bring them to your institutions, give you some
money and you will register them for IJMB without any training or
classes.”

The registrar added: “Even yesterday (Monday), I got some
information that I became dumbfounded, almost losing hope that
there is nothing we can do. One gentleman came to me yesterday and
he said: ‘What are you doing? You will be fighting; you don’t know
what is going on in Nigeria.’

“He told me all this authentication that we are doing is just
speaking English. ‘People who are making cool money are making it
and they are destroying the education system.’ And I asked him to
give me an example. And he told me that there is what they call
Familiar Name (FN) that all you need do is to walk to a corrupt
officer in any of our examination bodies and when you go there, you
say a familiar name.

“If your name is John Bello, they will tell the exam officer and
they will look for a John Bello who has written their examination
before and simply give a copy of the certificate to you and you
will take it. When you write to that examination body, giving that
photocopy, they will take it and say it is authentic. Whereas it is
in a wrong man’s hand.

“How can you beat that? Unless we are more vigilant, we are more
committed and we are angry about desecration. If you are not angry
about desecration, you cannot change it. It is so bad.”

NYSC Director General, Brig.-Gen. Shuaibu Ibrahim said
management of the scheme would sanction erring institutions and
officials who attempt to compromise the mobilisation process to
serve as deterrent to others.

Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board
(JAMB), Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, has said many tertiary institutions
still mobilise or award certificates to people who never attended
the institutions.

Oloyede spoke at the 2021 Batch “B” pre-mobilisation workshop
organised by the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) yesterday in
Abuja.

The workshop was attended by representatives of tertiary
institutions and other stakeholders.

Oloyede said: “There are many ways that corps members and their
collaborators take towards corrupting the system. The longer you
stay in this system, the more shocked you are likely to become.

“Many institutions still engage in mobilising or awarding
certificates to people who didn’t attend the institutions. You are
in a position to know because you run Interim Joint Matriculation
Board (IJMB) and others. How many of these students are actually
your students? Go on the streets of Nigeria and you will see IJMB
coaching. These candidates are not supposed to be attending
roadside coaching. They are supposed to be in your
institutions.

“In Abuja here, you can count 100, and they will publicly put
IJMB training. Who are they training? Who are their lecturers? It
is just an avenue because they know that they will harvest these
children and just bring them to your institutions, give you some
money and you will register them for IJMB without any training or
classes.”

The registrar added: “Even yesterday (Monday), I got some
information that I became dumbfounded, almost losing hope that
there is nothing we can do. One gentleman came to me yesterday and
he said: ‘What are you doing? You will be fighting; you don’t know
what is going on in Nigeria.’

“He told me all this authentication that we are doing is just
speaking English. ‘People who are making cool money are making it
and they are destroying the education system.’ And I asked him to
give me an example. And he told me that there is what they call
Familiar Name (FN) that all you need do is to walk to a corrupt
officer in any of our examination bodies and when you go there, you
say a familiar name.

“If your name is John Bello, they will tell the exam officer and
they will look for a John Bello who has written their examination
before and simply give a copy of the certificate to you and you
will take it. When you write to that examination body, giving that
photocopy, they will take it and say it is authentic. Whereas it is
in a wrong man’s hand.

“How can you beat that? Unless we are more vigilant, we are more
committed and we are angry about desecration. If you are not angry
about desecration, you cannot change it. It is so bad.”

NYSC Director General, Brig.-Gen. Shuaibu Ibrahim said
management of the scheme would sanction erring institutions and
officials who attempt to compromise the mobilisation process to
serve as deterrent to others.