The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says it will spend about N100 million to prosecute 200 out of 400 persons caught for impersonation during the 2020 unified Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
Registrar of the board, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, disclosed this on Tuesday in Abuja, during a ‘confession session’ of two persons arrested in Kano for attempting to change a photograph used in UTME registration in Bayero University, Kano.
“North is fast becoming the epicentre for JAMB exam fraud as the top 20 Computer Based Test (CBT) centres caught in the act of trying to change candidates’ picture and other details were all from Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Zamfara, Gombe, Bauchi, Borno and Sokoto states,” he said.
“Some of the owners are not from the Northern states, three CBT centres notorious for abetting such malpractices in Kano are owned by a woman from a South-South state.”
He said the arrest of Buhari Abubakar, a 2020 JAMB candidate and Mohammed Ajeru Sanusi, a CBT centre operator in Kano, for trying to change the former’s passport, testified to the ability of JAMB to detect any such fraud in any institution.
“At the appropriate time we should prosecute at least 200 out of the 400. What we intend to do is to pick like five from each of the states of the federation,” he said.
The JAMB warned that any school that allows candidates to alter their UTME details in the course of registration risk being treated as accomplice to fraud.
