Almost all the students in Benin City have had their results under investigation for more than one week now after JAMB released the 2024 UTME results. What is more concerning is that JAMB is not communicating about the release of the results or the progress of the investigation, leaving the students and parents confused. According to the Bible, 'Expectations postponed make the heart sick.' On Twitter, many students and parents have been crying out for a response, but no one seems to care to listen.

This is a call to the Edo state governor, commissioner of Education, Director of the Directorate of Quality Assurance, and special advisers on Educational matters to the Edo state government. Please do not leave your students in the dark after they burned the midnight oil to prepare for this examination.

If there are any irregularities with the examination center, you can reschedule another examination for the students. It is not their fault they didn't choose the examination center; they were sent there by JAMB. This should be a concern for highly regarded centers like the WAEC International CBT center and University of Benin ICT centers. If JAMB finds them wanting for irregularities in the exam conducted at their centers and by some of their staff, they need to come out and prove themselves clean by showing the world the CCTV footage of the exam, demonstrating that the exam was free of infractions. Otherwise, any legal means they can use to clear their names should be pursued. If JAMB succeeds in proving there were irregularities in these centers, then the authenticity of exams conducted in these centers, like the January/February WAEC GCE and the UNIBEN post UTME, should be questioned.

The big question remains: how can malpractice happen in a CBT exam where each candidate's questions are different, thumbprinting and biometric verification are used to admit students, and CCTV cameras monitor the candidates?