LICK YOUR WOUNDS: DON’T BLAME JAMB FOR YOUR COLLECTIVE FAILURE – MURIC TELLS PARENTS

14^th May, 2025

PRESS RELEASE:

LICK YOUR WOUNDS: DON’T BLAME JAMB FOR YOUR COLLECTIVE FAILURE – MURIC TELLS PARENTS

As some parents and candidates vow to sue the Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board (JAMB) over the mass failure registered in the 2025 JAMB examination, the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has advised both the candidates and their parents to lick their wounds and stop blaming JAMB for their failures.

This was contained in a statement issued on Wednesday 14^th May, 2025 by Professor Ishaq Akintola, the Executive Director of the human rights organization.

Clarifying his stand, Akintola said:

“A few parents and candidates who failed the 2025 version of the Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board (JAMB) have vowed to take the national examination body to court over technical glitches (https://punchng.com/mass-failure-utme-candidates-to-sue-jamb-over-technical-glitches/#google_vignette).

“This is crying after the head has been cut off. Their results would been different if they had been well prepared. But instead of burning candles and reading far into the night, our young ones have been discothequeing, roaming the streets and loafing around after they have been assured that magic centers are the answer. Alas, JAMB proved to be smarter than them.

“As for the excuse of technical glitches, the candidates and their parents should know better. Technical hitches at CBT centres cannot be blamed on JAMB whose headquarters is far away. They should blame the CBT centres. The law establishing JAMB may stomach vicarious liability, but the technical nitty gritties will still favour the cat jumping into JAMB’s backyard.

“MURIC advises candidates who failed the examination to lick their wounds, re-examine themselves, throw their hats into the ring once again and stop blaming JAMB. It behoves the parents to stop indulging their children. The future belongs to youths who toil hard and prepare themselves for the challenges of this jet age, not to overpampered ones whose mothers still breastfeed them at 25.

“We charge parents to join hands with JAMB and the Nigerian authorities in cleansing the system already permeated with moral decadence. JAMB is not the enemy of those candidates, the parents who fail to discipline them and the permissive society which idolises indolence and demonises dilligence are their foes. Lick your wounds, leave JAMB alone.”

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Professor Ishaq Akintola,

Founder/Executive Director,

Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC).