The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB, said it arrested a father writing exams for his son during the ongoing 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination,( UTME).
The board issued a warning, stating that it has enhanced its technology to detect and prevent any kind of examination malpractice.
Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, the JAMB Registrar, gave a speech in Kaduna on Wednesday after touring the UTME centers. He acknowledged his delight with the 2024 exam, which attracted 1.94 million students this year.
Although there have been a few instances of impersonation, he expressed disapproval and mentioned that some individuals now had numerous National Identity Numbers (NINs), which the Identification Management organization and the examination body would address.
“For those who engage in cheating, they should know that it does not pay. The technology is helping us to check that. Across the country, most of the problem we have is impersonation. For instance now, we say we have NIN, we now have cases of people with two NIN and therefore, that has defeated the purpose of identity verification. We are going to take that up with NIMC, that there are people who have two NIN.
“We have a case of a father impersonating his son, writing examination for the son and I wonder, are you not destroying your son’s future? Of course, 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 happened definitely not in Kaduna, but I don’t want to disclose the state,” he said.
He said JAMB needs support of highly populated states like Lagos, to build mega CBT centres like that of Kaduna, which accommodates 4,000 candidates per day.
He expressed hope that the authorities in Lagos would provide a suitable land for JAMB to build the Mega CBT centre in the city.
