Operators of tutorial schools have asked the Federal Government to limit the tenure of registrars of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board to a single five-year term without extension.
Although the JAMB Act empowers the President to appoint the registrar for five years with the option of renewal, the operators argued that long stays in office weaken accountability and hurt stakeholders.
The current JAMB Registrar, Prof Is-haq Oloyede, was first appointed in August 2016 by the late President Muhammadu Buhari and reappointed in 2021 for another five years, which would end in 2026.
Speaking with Saturday PUNCH, the Secretary of the Association of Tutorial School Operators in Oyo State, Ogundokun Olufunso, said tenure extension breed overconfidence and loopholes.
“Five years is enough. Extending it to 10 years is too much,” he said.
Olufunso also faulted JAMB’s policy restricting services such as change of institution and O’level result uploads to its offices and CBT centres, noting that it sidelines cybercafes, increases costs for candidates, and creates congestion.
He, however, praised the introduction of computer-based testing, saying it had sanitised the system and boosted tutorial enrolment.
JAMB spokesperson, Fabian Benjamin, declined to comment.
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