How Ex-JAMB Registrar Oloyede Waged Successful War Against Exam Malpractices, Dismantled Powerful Cartel – Echono

Executive Secretary of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), Arc. Sonny Echono, on Monday, revealed how the immediate past Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Professor Emeritus Ishaq Oloyede, waged a successful war against examination malpractice in Nigeria while in office.

Echono spoke at the homecoming celebration organised for Professor Oloyede by the University of Ilorin, alongside the investiture ceremony for Awards of Excellence presented to four distinguished Nigerians, Distinguished Alumni and UNILORIN Ambassadors.

Echono recalled how Oloyede recruited him to join the fight against examination malpractice, noting that he initially did not understand the scale of the problem until he became directly involved.

“I recall Professor Oloyede waged a successful war against exam malpractice in this country.

“I didn’t understand the importance of that war, because they have turned it into big businesses that were all over the country, until I got involved and he put me into that fight. But I didn’t know that it was actually a multi-billion business. And every day, phone calls: you are coming with threats.

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“They have constituted themselves into a cartel, yet with courage and working with the security agencies. In fact, there was a point when we took a room in Sheraton Hotel. It was our mobile court.

“More than 60-something children were arrested from various parts of the country for exam malpractices, and we were interested not just in the fact that they had committed crimes; we wanted to know who was behind them. And through that exercise, for several days, we were held up in that hotel; we interviewed them, we had arrested and detained them in one location, and the security people were bringing them one by one.

“At the end of the day, we were able to extract so much information that helped to clean out that mess from us.”

Echono also praised Oloyede for his compassion and his contribution to inclusive education in Nigeria.

“He’s a man who has also demonstrated compassion. The staff in JAMB will tell you the nature of the man, but even in the course of his work, when you talk about inclusive education today, the chief apostle of inclusive education is Professor Ishaq Oloyede,” he said.

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Meanwhile, the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ilorin, Professor Wahab Egbewole, announced that the university would establish a N250 million professorial chair in honour of the former JAMB Registrar.

The professorial chair, named the “Ishaq Oloyede Professorial Chair of Islamics,” was announced as part of the university’s recognition of the contributions and selfless service of the honourees to society.

The homecoming celebration was held to honour Professor Oloyede and recognise distinguished Nigerians and alumni for their contributions and service to society.

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