By Funso Alarape
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
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The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) Registrar, Professor Ishaq Oloyede on Wednesday in Kaduna confirmed the arrest of a man and his son over alleged examination malpractice.
The agency did not disclose the names of the accused persons but revealed that the offense was committed during the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, the JAMB registrar disclosed this while on an inspection tour of the UTME centers in Kaduna on Wednesday.
Oloyede said the father was caught trying to impersonate and take the examination for his son, adding both suspects have been detained by the police.
The Registrar said that the 2024 examination was largely well conducted except for a few cases of impersonation describing it
as one of the biggest problems the organization has been facing across the country
He said that some candidates possess multiple National Identification Numbers (NIN)
which he said, “has defeated the purpose of identity verification”.
However, Oloyede warned that those who cheated in the exam would be arrested either now or much later after the examination
He said that technology was helping the examination body to check malpractice, adding, “For those who engage in cheating, they should know that it does not pay.”
He added, “We have a case of a father impersonating his son, taking an examination for the son. Are you not destroying your son’s future?
“Two of them are now in custody. I can’t understand what the father will now tell his son when they are both locked up in the same cell. This did not happen in Kaduna, but I don’t want to disclose the state.”
The examination body had also sanctioned one of its officials in Lagos for directing a female candidate to remove her hijab during its 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
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