Bisola David
The registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, Professor Ishaq Oloyede, has stated that the board will prosecute 34 candidates and six Ad-hoc CBT staff for plotting and unlawfully collecting thumbprints from applicants registering for JAMB examinations. This act of impersonation is illegal and punishable by law.
According to LEADERSHIP, the JAMB registrar, who was in Kano to observe the ongoing UTME registration exercise in the state disclosed this on Wednesday and termed it as trouble-free.
Oloyode, who recently paid a visit to the JAMB headquarters at Mariri in the Tarauni local government area, stated that the board would check malpractice in all of its manifestations.
“I’m in Kano to observe the registration process for the UTME. Although we have identified cunning tactics being used to sabotage us, the exercise is now going quite well.
“The media have witnessed how some people have substituted their fingerprints in an effort to impersonate candidates during examinations. We have seen two to three situations where we showed evidence and practically all the suspects have admitted to perpetrating the crime,” he said.
The JAMB chairman claimed that candidates ended up using their own thumbprints in place of the candidates’ and that they would eventually use them to coerce or force the candidates to pay a ransom or threaten them with other forms of punishment in order to settle and continue their criminal deed.
The registrar at the Federal College of Education Kano displayed proof of fraud in which two ad hoc staff members were charged with thumbprinting a female candidate.
Oloyode, a member of the JAMB personnel, guided other employees to key locations such the Bayero University, CBT Center, the Tez Computer Center, and the Butale Computer Center, where four members of the ad hoc staff were apprehended for identical offenses involving thumbprinting applicants.
