By Gom Mirian
The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says that at least 15 collaborators in Computer-based centres (CBT) across the country involved in various sharp practices in this year’s yet-to-be concluded Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) have been detained.
The examination body, which had earlier on February 8, cancelled the registrations of 817 candidates and ordered them to re-register over allegation of impersonation, said the collaborators would be prosecuted accordingly.
The Registrar of the board, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede revealed this while on an inspection tour of some centres in Abuja on Monday.
Oloyede said the fifteen persons were engaged in various forms of examination sharp practices ranging from thumb printing for several candidates, among others criminals act.
“We will continue to do the best. At least I know that those who are being detained are about 15.
“So far, we have registered about 1.6m now. That is 1,600,000 candidates about that figure.
“That’s the number we expect because we do not expect more than that because the direct entry starts today.
“So far, we do not have any challenge except the normal challenges of people wanting to defraud.”You have been monitoring what is happening, but we are ahead of them, and you have seen that even when they think they are clever, we appear to be there before them,” he said.
Earlier in an interview with journalists, the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education, Mr. Andrew David Adejo expressed satisfaction over the deadline extension, says before the deadline, the board was able to capture more than 98 per cent of people.
Adejo said, “We asked the head of this centre how many were reduced schemes for registering on Saturday, he said about 15 and 18.
“So I think the monitoring gives us the confidence that yes, it was a good idea to extend so that you don’t leave anybody out-of-the-box and say I was not registered because JAMB did not allow me to register, ” Adejo said
