A father has petitioned the Senate over the non-release of his 16-year-old daughter’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) 2024 Result by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB).
He accused one of the supervisors of the examination of masterminding the withholding of the result.
The father of the candidate, Mr. Onyebuchi Obioha, laid his petition last Wednesday before the Chairman of its Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions, Neda Imasuen (LP, Edo South).
But the examination supervisor has denied giving Chizitere his phone number during or after the examination.
In his petition, which is currently being considered by the Senate, Obioha said: “My name is Onyebuchi Obioha, the father of Chizitere Audrey Obioha, whose JAMB details include – Name: Audrey Chizitere Obioha; Registration Number: 202440075547GF; Examination Number: C44208171; Centre Number: C44208; Seat Number: 171.
“She wrote her UTME at Wisdom House CBT Centre at Ogba, Lagos, on April 22, 2024 at 12 p.m.
“…I personally took her to the centre. I dropped her at the centre, and she left her reading materials in the car and joined the line to enter the centre with her exam slip.
“I waited at a nearby shopping plaza until she came out. I asked her how the exam went, and she told me that she did very well.
“But when the results were released, we checked and saw that her result was not there; rather (there was) alleged Examination Infraction…
“We were worried and inquired from her if anything happened or if she was involved in any exam concerns and she told us no. To this end, we asked a relative who resides in Abuja to visit the JAMB office to see if we will get answers, but the response was that we should open a ticket.
“We promptly opened a ticket on April 30, and the ID is #240430-9KYGAD.
From April 30, we kept updating the ticket, asking for answers but never received any response.
“On June 25, 2024, we visited the JAMB office in Ikoyi and the officers there stated that the ‘Alleged Examination Infraction’ could mean any of the following – caught with materials in the hall, caught cheating with another candidate or caught with a device.
“On July 11, 2024, my daughter sat during an interactive session with some JAMB officials where they asked questions and also stated that they had footage of her being caught with a device during the exam.
“My daughter responded that this was not possible as she had no single issue in the hall. They also asked her if she filled a malpractice form to which she responded that she did not.
“My daughter did not own a telephone, IPAD or any electronic device and did not take any with her to the exam on that day. We have not received any feedback on that session till date…”
“When my daughter came out of the hall on that fateful exam day, being the 22nd of April 2024, after she told me that the examination was good, she then handed a tiny piece of paper to me and said that a man in the hall gave it to her to call him after the exam.
“In her exact words: ‘He came around and looked at her name and said that her name was a beautiful name. He then left and came back almost when she was rounding off and dropped this piece of paper and asked her to call him afterwards’. She decided to bring the paper to me.
“I called the number immediately and asked him why he gave a little girl of 16 years his number to call him. He immediately denied it and said that it was wrong number. I checked the paper and told him that it was his number that he wrote that I called.
“He cut the line. When we got home, my daughter also told my wife who also placed a call to him and he denied again and also cut the line.
“I then sent a WhatsApp message same day in the evening to him, asking him to desist from this and should apologise. He did not respond. I have that message. I have also attached it here. I checked Truecaller and the name that popped up was ‘Mutiu Olayemi.’”
Speaking on phone with reporters yesterday in Abuja, Mr. Olayemi denied giving his number to Chizitere or any other person during or after the examinations in April.
The UTME supervisor said he was in Abuja in response to an invitation extended to him by JAMB concerning the allegation.
“I didn’t toast anybody during the examination or give my phone number to any candidate. I’m already in Abuja as directed by JAMB Abuja to defend myself,” he said.
Olayemi added that he did not write a report of examination infraction against Chizitere but the Resident Monitor did.
