The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has said
it has not released any result yet, warning candidates and their parents to be
wary of fraudsters.
It said it would reach out to candidates through their
telephones as soon as all the results of the 2019 UTME were ratified.
Over 1.8 million candidates registered for the examination
which took place on April 11 to 18.
The board’s Head, Media and Information, Dr Fabian Benjamin
disclosed this on Sunday in Lagos.
He said candidates should not be carried away by what he
described as rumours and misleading information in some sections of the media,
especially social media.
“The board wants to distance itself from such rumours about
releasing the results of candidates of the just concluded UTME and steps to check
these results as being speculated.
“Candidates should disregard this information as it is not
true. It is not emanating from the board. No results have been released yet.
Yes the results are all ready, but we are yet to release them because they are
still being ratified.
“The board is carrying out all the checks and balances
regarding these results by way of viewing the CCTV camera as well as attend to
all findings brought before it while the examination lasted.
“The release of the result will be publicised as soon as we
are through with all the board has set out to achieve. We will let the public
know
“Candidates should not bother themselves going to any cyber
cafe to check any result. Our result check has been standardised. We will
forward the results to the respective telephone numbers of those candidates who
are deserving of it,” he said.
He said that the board was intensifying efforts to ensure
that results of deserving candidates were released by next week.
Benjamin further explained that it was not also true that
the board was deducting some marks from candidates with proven cases of
examination malpractice.
According to him, once the board establishes evidence of any
form of examination malpractice, it will cancel out rightly, the result of such
candidate rather than deduct marks.
“If we establish any case of infraction or examination
malpractice being carried out in any centre too, such centre is shut down and
the entire results of candidates who wrote in that centre from the commencement
of the examination, which is Aprill 11 to the end will automatically be
cancelled.
“Such affected candidates are rescheduled immediately for
the examination in another centre as was the case in some centres in Abia,” he
said.
He added that the board made several arrests of persons
caught trying to undermine the integrity of the examination and process, while
it lasted, just like it shut down centres that fell short of the standard.
Benjamin said that Prof. Ishaq Oloyede led JAMB has a zero
tolerance for any form of corruption, which included examination malpractice.
“Right now, we have just read from a major national daily
that an ex-JAMB staff is about to be arraigned by the EFCC over an alleged
diversion of about N100 million belonging to the board.
“Let me make it clear that this said case was not during the
tenure of the current JAMB Registrar.
“In fact, one of the major guidelines of the current board
is total transparency and accountability, coupled with its open door policy,”
Benjamin said.
(NAN)
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