Eniola Akinkuotu, Abuja

Heads are set to roll across the country as the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has launched a probe into the credentials of applicants dating back to 2009.

This implies that persons who cheated the system to pass the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination to get into school and may have even graduated and participated in the National Youth Service Corps will be arrested and their certificates withdrawn.

The Head, Media and Information of JAMB, Fabian Benjamin, said this during an interview with The PUNCH on Monday.

Benjamin said the probe had begun and it would be completed in record time as JAMB has acquired software which would be able to identify fake biometric data.

Speaking in a separate interview on 95.1 Nigeria Info FM Abuja, the JAMB spokesman said, “We want to do what we call biometric verification dating back to 10 years.

“Even if you are now working and we discovered that someone wrote exams for you, we will publish your name and the law agencies will do the needful.

“We have the biometrics from 10 years ago. We will compare the photos with thumbprints and names.

“We discovered that a candidate could have written exams with 30 different names.”


Explaining how impersonation takes place, Benjamin added, “This is how they operate: My name is Fabian Benjamin, but I will register as Abdullahi Musa and write exams for Abdullahi Musa; but I will use Fabian Benjamin’s picture and biometric data; only the name will be different.

“I will register as John David, as Austin Steven. I will register in the name of anyone that pays me, write exams for that person, but I will use my picture.

“We will give the institution the photo and it must match. In fact, only our picture must be accepted by the institution.”

Speaking with our correspondent during a separate interview, the JAMB spokesman said it had become important to expose exam cheats to serve as a deterrent to others.

He said the photos of those found culpable would be published for all to see, even if they have since started working.

Benjamin said, “If you graduated from university and you did not write UTME, it means the foundation is faulty and the building cannot stand.

“We have already started the probe, but we will go deeper after the exams.

“It will not take too long. We are using software, so it will just check the biometric data of candidates and if the biometric data of someone shows about six different names, then it will notify us.

“So, if one person’s photo brings up different names and we have spotted this, we will find out where the person is and then we will pick them up.”

He said the exam body had been able to arrest over 100 persons nationwide for malpractice in the ongoing examinations.

Benjamin said JAMB had written a letter to the Attorney-General of the Federation for advice on their prosecution.


“Even if they are not punished, let the public know that Mr. A who is a doctor became so after someone wrote exams for him.

“That shame alone will serve as a deterrence to others. We must start from 10 years ago, so that others will learn,” he said.

https://punchng.com/well-get-those-who-cheated-to-get-admission-jamb-says-launches-10-year-probe-of-utme/

hmmm

Someone they wrote waec or jamb for and paid for admission thereby displacing a more qualified person will come to nairaland and say yahoo boys are ruining his/her image abroad.

Please Jamb fish all of them out.

oga JAMB!!!!

be careful with this table you want to shake ooo!!


i hope you knw say na your aboki masters this thing u wan do go affect pass!

them go remove you for that position sharperly!








OH! I DON FORGET SAY THERE ARE TWO LAWS IN NIGERIA - THE HASH LAWS FOR THE SOUTH AND THE SOFTER LAWS FOR THE NORTH!

THAT'S WHY WE HAVE SARS TERRORIZING SOUTHERNERS WHILE IN THE NORTH THEY DO ONLY PATROLS WITHOUT HARASSMENT OR ARRESTS!




I GUESS THIS MOVE IS MEANT TO MESS SOUTHERNERS!

Jamb! so many students did not write the exams because of faulty computers and you are here talking about probe .What nonesense and impudence

Trust me, this is another method to increase budget. They will come and tell us that this project costs the tax payers billions of Naira. Some roads will remain untarred because of this.

vonlogon:
Trust me, this is another method to increase budget. They will come and tell us that this project costs the tax payers billions of Naira. Some roads will remain untarred because of this.

Jamb doesn't collect budget from federal govt..jamb generate income and give the profit to federal govt

Iranu people.

Make them start from 20 or 25 years ago na.


Lubbish

Bleep!!!! My own Don finish be that

SETHWORLD:
hmmm

This one you're "hmmming" I hope you didn't cheat in JAMB ohh.

So something like this existed, I come waste 3yrs wia I dey find admission during my time

Wetin this people dey smoke again

Joblessness

Issorite

This is funny. Very funny. Very very very funny

Like sheriously?

Why not focus on how to improve the technology to be used in the next exams..

Misplaced priority

These people are funny oo...


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Students right now

Ha!

And how will that possible even when they are using paper and pencil by that time without no database.

Lol see these clowns jamb's got nothing on me even if they probe as far as 20 years

"even if they will not be punished......just the shame alone.... yen yen yen yen yen! who cares about shame in Nigeria anymore, so far u making your cash!

princeade86:
And how will that possible even when they are using paper and pencil by that time without no database.

thumbprints

Lol. Nice one

Jamb this table una wan shake so... hmmm I comment my reserve

Heads will roll... This is what is called nemesis.
Bi Iro ba lo ni ogun odun, Ojo kan ni otito a'ba