Exam Malpractices: Lawyer Asks Court to Stop JAMB, Others, from Probing 20092019 Candidates

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, has been asked to stop the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) and two others, from going ahead with the proposed plan, to publish the names of candidates alleged to have cheated in the United Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) within 2009 and 2019.

A Lagos-based lawyer, Chief Osuala Emmanuel Nwagbara, who filed the suit marked as FHC/L/CS/980/19, wants the court to stop JAMB and others from the planned probe of the credentials of candidates, and declare it unconstitutional, due to their right to fair hearing.

Other Respondents in the suit filed by Nwagbara on behalf of UTME candidates of 2009 to 2019 against JAMB, are Federal Minster of Education and the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF).

Nwagbara said the suit before Justice Saliu Saidu was filed pursuant to Sections 36 and 42 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999, Article 2 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights Act and the Fundamental Rights Procedure Rules 2009.

The Lawyer, apart from begging the court to declare JAMB's planned move as null and void, illegal, and unconstitutional, is also asking the court to declare that, since JAMB had screened and cleared the candidates who partook in the examinations over the period 2009 to 2019, for university admission, it cannot now probe their university admission prequalification credentials, and or take any other steps and or actions that may be injurious to the interest of all such persons.

He also sought for a declaration that JAMB, having screened and cleared the United Tertiary Matriculation Examination candidates who partook in the examinations over the period 2009 to 2019 for university admission, cannot now publish the names of such persons as person who may have cheated in the university admission