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The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), University of Ibadan Chapter has kicked against the recent policy of redistribution of candidates against their choice of institutions by the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB).

ASUU said JAMB has made the admission process chaotic and exposed candidates to fraudsters saying JAMB must respect candidates preferences and choices for tertiary institutions and consider security of lives of candidates, cost, proximity, quality, and rights of the Nigerian child in arriving at any policy.

ASUU therefore called on Nigerians to Join in calling for the total scrapping of JAMB saying it has outlived its usefulness.

While reacting to the recent policy, ASUU Chairman, University of Ibadan, Professor Segun Ajiboye described the policy as insensitive and exploitative of the children of the poor adding that it amounted to abuse of their fundamental human rights of freedom of choice.

But in a swift reaction, the JAMB has further explained that the policy to redistribute candidates who have cut-off marks less than what their institutions of first choice required to needy institutions was done to assist the candidates and their parents, noting that the ASUU UI chapter’s claim that it was anti-poor was not untrue.

JAMB also described the union’s claim that JAMB will make about N1 billion as proceeds from candidates buying cards to check their redistribution status as unfounded, noting that the checking is completely free and calling on parents and candidates to check the Board’s website from Thursday, 30^th July, 2015, for their names and institutions they are placed in.

The ASUU had lashed out at the Professor Dibu Ojerinde JAMB Board for being so insensitive to the plights of the Nigerian masses whose parents have not been paid for months by some Governors but are now being forced to pay N1, 000 naira to know where they are reassigned against their choices.

According to Ajiboye, the University of Ibadan for instance, provides a level playing ground for students who scored 200 and above in JAMB examination to compete for the available spaces in the university.

 “Candidates choose universities considering quality, cost, proximity, courses of choice, among others. Will Dibu Ojerinde pay for the fees so charged by the institutions (including exorbitant fees in private and State universities) where the candidates have been reassigned? If a candidate is reassigned from Lagos to Ondo State, Will Professor Dibu Ojerinde foot the bill and expenses incurred and incase of any accident. Who is JAMB protecting the candidates or their cronies in other institutions? It has to go”      An institution that asked candidates to make their choices of Universities, polytechnic and monotechnics has now turned back to impose tertiary institutions on candidates and is demanding another N1000 to access information. This JAMB has outlived its usefulness. "