Parents are behind exam malpractice, not students — Oloyede

Parents are the primary drivers of examination malpractice in Nigeria, not the students themselves, according to former Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Ishaq Oloyede. He described parental involvement in exam fraud as the most painful aspect of his decade-long tenure.

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The most painful period of my experience in JAMB had to do with the level of involvement of parents in organisation of examination malpractice.

Oloyede explained that many parents deliberately expose their children to dishonest practices, pushing them into criminality to secure admissions into tertiary institutions. "The problem are the parents," he asserted, noting that candidates are often not the architects of the malpractice.

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They are introducing their wards, their children to the world of criminality.

During an interview with ThisDay Live, Oloyede expressed his emotional distress at the lengths parents would go to facilitate cheating. He urged parents to focus on providing a better foundation for their children rather than passing on negative values and contributing to a cycle of dishonesty.

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I have no difficulty. And I think most of the candidates are not problematic. They are not the problem. The problem are the parents.