Founder of the Albino Foundation, Jake Epelle, says the concession of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB, for persons with albinism still stands and is undergoing verification process.
Speaking during an interview on Arise Television on Friday, Ekpelle said JAMB did not issue an outright cancellation of the concession given to persons with albinism.
He said it is more like a temporary pause to ensure the wrong individuals do not take advantage of the system.
The CEO of TAF Africa added that the issue will be resolved, stressing that a backend verification process will be implemented to ensure that only authorised persons are using the concession.
He said, “There are policies that are good and there are policies that are bad, and I want to say that this is one good policy, and to say that the concession given to persons with albinism, JAMB did not do outright cancelation.
“It’s more or less to pause that concession so that the wrong people will not take advantage of it. It’s not correct to say that persons with albinism were part of the group that was abusing the process or that concession.
“Here is what happened. There is facial morphing, which is facial swapping using Artificial Intelligence, a situation where they can take your face, take the futures on your face, your eyes, your nose and blend it together another person’s face.
“One of the technical thing about persons with the biological thing about persons with albinism is that our Iris does rebuff light.
“Glasses does not help us. So what these people were doing, charlatans and those who wants to undermine the integrity of our education sector, they would take several faces and blend it, especially the face of persons with albinism, and blend it to get their own face so that they can gain access to examination and do whatever they want to do.”
