The Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Ben Kalu has said that the integrity of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) must not be compromised by technical lapses or human error.
He stressed that the technical glitch experienced by JAMB was not a failure on the part of the candidates, nor a deliberate act of sabotage but a preventable human error within the system.
Kalu stated this on Sunday in Abuja while addressing a press conference on the 2025 JAMB Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) Technical Crisis.
He stressed that the events surrounding the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) have shaken public confidence in one of the nation’s most critical gateways to opportunity.
The Deputy Speaker emphasised that the mass outcry that followed the release of this year’s results, and the subsequent technical review, demands not only transparency but decisive action to restore faith in the educational system.
While commending the swift apology of the Registrar of JAMB, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, Kalu noted that it did not erase the trauma, disruption and uncertainty experienced by the young people and their families.
“To the affected candidates: your frustration is valid, and your voices have been heard. The integrity of our national examinations must never be compromised by technical lapses or human error,” Kalu said.
Against this background, Kalu called on JAMB to commission an independent, transparent audit of its entire examination infrastructure.
This audit, Kalu said, should involve external professionals, system engineers, and academic measurement experts to scrutinise every aspect of the Computer Based Test (CBT) engine, question delivery, answer validation, and result collation processes.
He noted that the examination body must also implement stronger deployment validation protocols and real-time monitoring mechanisms to prevent recurrence.
