Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, the Registrar, Joint Admissions and
Matriculation Board (JAMB), broke down in tears on Saturday in Abuja, as
he announced the release of the 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation
Examination (UTME), conducted few weeks ago, Sun News reports.
The discovery made during the period of scrutiny of the examination
centers was unprecedented and the Registrar was deeply shocked by 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 use 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, is 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 representative 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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