Admission seekers who wrote the 2015 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, alongside operators of tutorial centres in Lagos State, on Friday, July 24, dragged the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB, and management of the University of Lagos, UNILAG.
The group is filing a law suit over what they described as the introduction of a new “draconian” admission policy, stating that the policy would deny many eligible candidates from writing the post-UTME test.
The candidates, who in their hundreds, stormed the Federal High Court, Ikoyi, on Friday, were led in two hired BRT buses by one of their counsels, Alex Ogedengbe, who had reportedly filed the suit at the court’s registry.
One of the parents of candidates,identified as Seye Ogunjobi, said their latest step was aimed at securing an injunction from the court to stop UNILAG from conducting post-UTME until all the candidates who scored 180 and above in the UTME are allowed to write the test as earlier announced by JAMB.
But in its reaction, the university had said it did not have anything to do with the new admission policy, adding that it never increased its cut-off marks as being speculated.
The Vice-Chancellor, Rahman Bello, said the institution does not have the power to overrule JAMB’s new policy and asked the candidates with complaints to direct same to JAMB as the examining body.
However, head of JAMB in Lagos, Beatrice Okorihi, in her own reaction, said the decision to fix the number of candidates eligible to write UNILAG’s post-UTME test was not the making of JAMB alone but a product of the combined policy meeting of the nation’s education stakeholders held in Abuja on July 14.
