*Photo L-R: Professor Ishaq Oloyede, JAMB Registrar and Jamiu Basola*
Management of the Federal University of Technology, Akure has reacted to the case of a 500-level student whose admission was recently declared fake by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB).
In an official statement by Adegbenro Adebanjo,Director Corporate Communication, FUTA, titled RE : THE STATUS OF JAMIU BASOLA IN FUTA, the University said:
“Jamiu Basola was admitted into the Department of Civil Engineering of the Federal University of Technology, Akure in the 2017/2018 academic session after passing the 2017 UTME .
“The course was for a five(5) years duration. In the course of trying to fill the appropriate form to be mobilized for the NYSC in his final year, he discovered his admission was declared fake by JAMB. He contacted JAMB and was informed that the matter would have to be investigated by the Police.
“The University was invited by the Police and all documents pertaining to his admission was presented for scrutiny. Thereafter, the Police wrote their report and reported that it had been forwarded to JAMB Headquarters for consideration.
“The University also took the extraordinary step of writing JAMB a reminder on the issue .
“FUTA has discharged its responsibility on the matter on behalf of Jamiu Basola and waits on JAMB , which flagged his status in the first place to resolve the matter based on the documents and information supplied to them by FUTA relating to the status of Jamiu Basola.
“The Ball is now in the court of JAMB.”