Lawyer asks JAMB to release details of top 10 candidates in 2024 UTME

An Abuja based lawyer, Chukwuma Nwachukwu, has invoked the Freedom of Information Act, FOIA, against the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, pursuing the introspection body’s determination to withhold accusation connected the apical scorers successful the precocious released results of the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME.

ln a missive the ineligible practitioner forwarded to JAMB, helium requested to beryllium furnished with names and scores of the 10 champion candidates successful the 2024 UTME, wrong 7 days, successful enactment with provisions of the FOI Act.

The applicant said that it was incorrect for JAMB to withhold the requested accusation erstwhile it gave a breakdown of the show of candidates that partook successful the introspection connected April 29.

Consequently, helium specifically asked the Registrar General of JAMB, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, to proviso him with the names and scores of the 10 champion students successful the examination.

“The supra exertion is made pursuant to the provisions of Section 1 of the Freedom of Information Act, 2011 which provides that.

“Notwithstanding thing contained successful immoderate different Act, instrumentality oregon regulation, the close of immoderate idiosyncratic to entree oregon petition information, whether oregon not contained successful immoderate written form, which is successful the possession of immoderate nationalist official, bureau oregon instauration howsoever described oregon established,” parts of the missive read.

The lawyer further stated that an applicant nether the Act needs not show immoderate circumstantial involvement successful the accusation being applied for, noting that immoderate idiosyncratic entitled to the close to accusation nether the Act tin institute proceedings successful tribunal to compel immoderate nationalist instauration to comply with the provisions of the Act.

“Take announcement that the aforesaid instrumentality further provides that I should person the accusation applied for wrong 7 days,” Nwachukwu added.

He further observed that JAMB had, successful the results of the UTME it announced to the public, disclosed that hardly a 4th of the full candidates scored supra 200.

Statistics released by the assemblage showed that retired of 1,904,189 candidates that sat for the exams, 1,402,490 (73.7%) of the students scored beneath 200.

The records besides amusement that results of 64,624 candidates were withheld.

“The Board is contiguous releasing the results of 1,842,464 candidates. 64,624 results are nether probe for verification, procedural probe of candidates, centre-based probe and alleged introspection misconduct,” the Registrar of JAMB, Prof. Oloyede stated portion announcing the merchandise of the results.