The controversy over the conduct of post-University Tertiary Matriculation Examinations took a different dimension on Wednesday with the initiator of the policy and Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board holding different grounds.

Former Minister of Education and proponent of the post-UTME, Mrs. Chinwe Obaji, appeared before the Senate Committee Education investigating the legality and propriety of the test, asserting that JAMB’s failure brought about the intervention.

But JAMB Registrar, Prof. Dibu Ojerinde, noted that the conduct of the post-UTME was another matriculation examinations contrary to the law establishing JAMB and creating additional financial burden on would-be students.

He said the Vice-Chancellors had turned the test into a revenue generating avenue, flouting the directives of the National Council on Education that no university should charge more than N1,000 for the screening.

Ojerinde said, “The results of the post-UTME are being used indiscriminatingly by different universities for different purposes, even as they invite candidates far more than their carrying capacities to boost their revenue from the exercise even when they know that they will not admit them.”

He advocated that instead of another test, the universities should  screen candidates to ensure they were qualified for admission.

He added that the universities had mechanisms for checking and flushing out those who entered the system through fraudulent means.

But  Obaji told the committee that she recommended post-UTME in 2005 for admitting pupils to the nation’s tertiary institutions after discovering that results obtained by JAMB candidates were fraudulent.

“What we found out was that there was no correlation between the JAMB scores obtained by students and their performances in class after they had been admitted. It was obvious at the time that JAMB was messing up the admission, with various kinds of lists,” she said.

GUYS WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO SAY

It is a waste, it's either we stick to Jamb and forget Post jamb or We stick to only post jamb. combining the two is only causing hardship on the candidate and the parent

They have turned the Post-utme to source of income .

Most universities are not been sincere with the result of the post-utme, they employ other criteria like catchment area, relationships and money bag at the end of the day to determine who get what.