Three firms, SW Global Ltd., Fleet Technologies Ltd., and Global Portal Services Ltd., have filed a contempt proceeding before a Federal High Court in Lagos against the Registrar, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, Prof. Dibu Ojerinde.
The firms are praying the court to commit him to prison for allegedly flouting the court’s order restraining the board from registering candidates for the 2011 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination.
Justice Okechukwu Okeke had on October 26, 2010, restrained JAMB from retaining the services of two firms, Sidmack Technologies Ltd. and Electronic Test Company Ltd. for the registration of its candidates for 2011 UTME.
But in a motion on notice filed on behalf of the firms by their lawyer, Dr. Joseph Nwobike (SAN), the companies alleged that in spite of the interim order, JAMB had retained the services of Electronic Test for the registration of its candidates.
They further claimed that in spite of the order, Sidmack Technologies and Electronic Test were now carrying out the registration of candidates for JAMB’s 2011 UTME, while the suit and the interim order still subsist.
The plaintiffs are also asking the court to commit to prison the managing directors of Sidmach Technologies and Electronic Test.
The plaintiffs, who sued jointly as members of the Converged Examinations Management Technology Platform Consortium, had in an affidavit in support of the suit, deposed to by the General Manager of SW Global Ltd., Tunde Sosina, claimed that they had entered into an Information Technology Services Agreement dated February 12, 2009 with JAMB.
The deponent added that the provision of the agreement empowered them to provide the sole platform for the Converged Examination Management Technology for all examinations conducted by JAMB and other two examination bodies under the Federal Ministry of Education.
According to Sosina, the two other examination bodies are the National Examination Council and National Business and Technical Board.
Sosina further alleged that following an approval policy of the Federal Government, JAMB, NECO and NABTEB held several pre-contract meetings and negotiations.
He claimed that the plaintiffs represented their technical, financial and operational capacities to implement the CEMPT fully for the various examinations usually conducted by the three exams bodies.
Sosina also claimed that under the CEMPT agreement, it was mutually agreed that the plaintiffs would provide JAMB and others with Registration Management, Notification and Validation, Item banking, Integration and Back-End, Biometrics Technology, Admissions Management for JAMB and Data Capture Management.
The deponent further alleged that the tenure of the agreement was for five years as contained in Clauses 7.0 and 7.1 of the agreement.
But Sosina claimed that in spite of the existence of the agreement, JAMB started making arrangements on how to award part of the contract to Sidmach Technologies and Electronic Test
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