JAMB TO MONITOR UTME STUDENTS WITH CCTV.

Thank goodness I read this post at a time I needed some laughter. Jamb to Monitor UTME students with CCTV? What is funnier than that?. We have had great and more fantastic innovations in the past than this...the Metal Detectors (Garrett), the computer system just to mention a few, were all the means through which top officials of the hallowed examination body enriched their already fat pockets. To give the benefit of the doubt though, one may agree to the fact that the idea is worth an appreciable degree of welcome. Atleast, the claim of The Registrar and Chief Executive of the board, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede that the computer based test could not be effective without the CCTV camera is worth given some open ears. But beyond this, it is imperative we ask ourselves, "are we prepared for this? Is it really workable in our system?" Of course the resounding answer is in the negative.
Our problem isn't with the lack of ideas to better and enhance our examination process, but the lack of disciplined and corruption-free personnel saddled with the duty to ensure to proper implementation of these ideas. If CCTV cameras are to be introduced, will they be distributed across all centres, including the notorious "special centres"? The CCTV cameras are no better than the card readers used in our elections whose era has seen more systematic and flippant rigging especially, lately and coincidentally, it is same academics that have monitored the two systems.
If JAMB is really serious with conducting malpractice free exams, then it needs such personnel that won't sit under the trees, hide inside the principal's office, gallavant within the centre with a blind eye to the atrocious happenings inside the halls during exam periods; personnel that before the commencement of exams, send a warning shot of stiffer supervision unless something enters their pockets. Have we dealt with the ones that invite principals or proprietors while marking scripts allocated to them? CCTV isn't the solution!

OK ooooooo, Naija been trying to conquer malpractice since forever