The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has said it has waded into the reported denial of over 2,000 admission seekers by the University of Lagos (UNILAG) over the examination body’s failure to upload candidates’ WAEC results on its portal.

Describing the incident as a ‘procedural issue’, the body said it would ensure that admission processes are monitored constantly to protect any candidate from being shortchanged.

JAMB Spokesperson, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, made the clarification in a statement yesterday. He called on candidates not offered admission or that feel shortchanged to take advantage of the body’s portal to raise queries, assuring that “their complaints would be looked into expeditiously and resolved.”

Benjamin explained that while candidates are allowed to register with “Awaiting Result” at the point of registration, those who fail to upload theirs before the commencement of admission by their chosen institutions are automatically disqualified.

According to him, to protect the interest of all candidates, the Board has assigned a Desk Officer to each institution to monitor their respective admission transactions.

“The Board as a responsible and responsive agency has, over the years, ensure that institutions admit candidates even where they feel strongly that such candidates do not deserve such admission based on certain principles, which the Board feels had not been sufficiently or clearly defined ab initio.

“The Board assures all of fairness and equity in resolving this procedural issue with the University of Lagos even as we maintain that had the Central Admissions Processing System (CAPS) platform not been efficient, it would have been difficult for the students concerned to know their ranking or standing on the institution’s admission list.

“The public and the candidates concerned in this reported issue are assured of the Board’s just intervention in the matter as their right to admission, if qualified, would not be denied. Consequently, all those who uploaded at the right time on CAPS and ranked appropriately would be considered by the university as stated by relevant advisories,” he added.