The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has lifted the ban on four out of the five Computer-Based Test (CBT) centres suspended for selling UTME registration pins above the stipulated price.
JAMB's Registrar Professor Ishaq Oloyede announced that the four centres were pardoned in a statement made available to newsmen on Wednesday.
“Those who sold our pins to candidates beyond the approved limit, we have decided to lift the ban on four of the five after they have explained, and they have given us an apology and they have explained what happened.
“One did not come so we are not lifting the suspension. The four of them, one of them that came, we are still doing investigation (on the centre)," he explained.
Oloyede, however, noted that the overcharge would be refunded by the four CBT centres to the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission for necessary action.
The JAMB boss noted that the affected payments would not be refunded because they were warned against paying above the stipulated price of the ePIN.
“As for those who overcharged, all the candidates who overpaid we are compiling the list. The overpayment will be paid by those vendors and those institutions to the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission.
“They will pay the money to them and the law will determine what to do because I don’t believe the money should go back to the candidates because if you can pay N3,000, N5,000, N6,000 above the cost, you do not deserve any sympathy.
"I believe the money should not go back to them because we told them not to pay but now that they have paid we will recover the money and pay it to the appropriate government agency because if we retain it, they will say JAMB is looking for money.
"We are not looking for dirty money, we will therefore return the money to the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, so as decided by the law, they can even take it to a charity home and give it to those in need,” Oloyede noted.
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