The Joint Admissions and
Matriculation Board (JAMB) says results for the 2019 Unified Tertiary
Matriculation Examination (UTME) are being delayed to “fish out” exam
fraudsters and impersonators.
Fabian Benjamin, JAMB’s head of
information, who said this while addressing journalists on Wednesday in Abuja,
added that it was discovered that some candidates were engaged in various
“illicit” registration acts during the 2019 UTME.
“We will release the results as
soon as we finish checking the results to ensure that all those ones that we
caught in various illicit registration acts are properly dealt with and those
that we could not arrest are withheld,” said the JAMB spokesman.
“We will release the results when
we finish doing our screening. We are screening the whole results. We don’t
have the numbers now but we won’t release any result until we are sure of the
whole thing.”
He added that over 100 exam
impersonators across the state have been arrested by the board, adding that
efforts are ongoing to clamp down on more culprits before the 2019 UTME results
are released.
“Though we may not be able to
pick all of them because of logistics problem and the state but what we are
doing now for those we could not pick who may have written the exam and gone,
we are fishing them out through their results,” Benjamin said.
“We are picking them across the
nation. As at today, we have picked up over a hundred candidates and we are
still picking.”
The board had on Tuesday arrested
two biological children of an accredited computer-based test (CBT) centre owner
in Lagos, over alleged examination malpractice.
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