Registrar, Joint Admissions and
Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, on Saturday broke down in
tears in Abuja, as he announced the release of the 2019 Unified Tertiary
Matriculation Examination (UTME),
Oloyede was in tears over the
discovery made during the period of scrutiny of the examination centres.
He expressed shock at the extent
some candidates went to perfect their cheating in the examination.
Oloyede told journalists in Abuja
that JAMB identified a large number of impersonators that specialised in
writing UTME for candidates, including most of the tutorial masters that also
specialised in recruiting professional writers for their candidates.
He said they used names directly
or variants of the name or multiple registrations. In Anambra State, two
centres registered large number of impersonating candidates and that led to
cancellation of the results and the CBT centres delisted.
“We also tracked the registration
centres and the computers used, he said, adding that “another dimension of
impersonation was a futile attempt of defeating the biometric capturing of ten
fingers that was introduced in 2017. The fraudsters thought they could beat the
system through ‘contributed fingers’, where two or more persons would use their
fingers to register for candidates, thinking that any of them would be able to
write for such candidates if the system allowed it.
“Another examples were in Aminu
Saleh College of Education, Azare, where someone’s fingerprint was discovered
in 42 person’s registration, and in Bauchi State University, Gadau, where one
person’s fingerprint was traced to the registration of 64 candidates with a
view to allowing any of the finger-contributing impersonators to access the
examination hall.”
He said the Board went to the
extent of interacting with the principal officers of the institution in Azare,
and “we appreciated the Council Chairman and Provost of the College whose
cooperation led to the confession of the culprit that he contributed fingers in
good faith.”
He said the confession, as bad as
it was, was good for the Board as, without it, there would have been doubts
about the accuracy of the technology deployed to determine and detect the
infraction.
He highlighted another case in
Borno State where, in Nassara Computer Academy, Maiduguri, 233 candidates had
one particular finger included in each of their biometric registration.
He said that JAMB has made
arrests through the effort of Special Task Force set up by Force Intelligence
Bureau (FIB), which assisted JAMB tremendously in tracking the offenders.
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