The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board said it has handed over a 19-year-old candidate in the 2021/2022 Unified Tertiary and Matriculation Examination to the police for investigation over what it described as “result tampering.”

According to the board’s Registrar, Prof Ishaq Oloyede, who briefed journalists at JAMB’s headquarters in Abuja on Friday, the candidate, Chinedu John, had claimed he scored 380 in the examination conducted in June was surprised to receive 265 from the board after the results were released.

He said following alleged “alteration” of the UTME score, the candidate’s father, John Ifenkpam, approached an Enugu-based lawyer, Ikeazor Akaiwe, who wrote to JAMB for another opportunity for the boy to retake the examination and demanded N1 billion as damages.

According to Oloyede, the lawyer said the N1 billion was to cover for the physical and emotional trauma the boy had been through from being offered “two separate scores.”

The candidate was said to have claimed that his UTME scores from 2019 till 2021 had been “altered” by the board, thereby denying him the opportunity to study his desired course – medicine.

On Friday, the candidate, his father and lawyers travelled to Abuja from Enugu state following an invitation from the management of the board led by the Oloyede.

Initially, the boy was given few minutes to “come clean” in a closed session with his father and lawyers about the results he was parading but insisted that his original score from the examination was 380.

After going back and forth, the board tendered evidence to counter the claim by John and his legal representatives.

At the Friday meeting, documentary evidence tendered by the board showed that John actually scored 265 and not the 380 he had claimed.

Oloyede accused the candidate of alteration, adding that he will be handed over to the police for investigation and subsequently prosecuted.

The registrar said John was among 11 eleven other candidates who allegedly forged their results that the board would prosecute.

He said the original result issued to him would be withdrawn pending investigation.

Oloyede said, “We have 11 of them who tampered with their results. Two of them are already being prosecuted. The remaining ones we are going to withdraw their results and prosecute them. The main purpose is to sanitise the system, including our own staff.

“There was never any communication of 380 with this boy. Because this boy has accused JAMB, we are going to withhold his result until the investigation is concluded. We are going to request that our interactions with him be subjected to the public.”

His lawyer, Ikeazor, appealed to the board to instead give room for further investigation.

“I will not stand against investigation. Let there be investigation but what I will not agree to is to prejudge him,” he said.

Earlier, John had said, “The result I have been receiving is not the result I am entitled to. I wrote the first JAMB in 2019.

“The first time, they sent 328 and later, I saw 278 when I checked it. I printed it. I couldn’t meet up for admission that year. I wanted to study medicine and surgery at the University of Ibadan.

“In 2020, the same thing happened. I scored 343, but by the time I went to the portal to print, I saw 306. I used the 306 and it gave me admission in UI. But because I didn’t have Further Mathematics, I had to forfeit it.

“I decided to leave Medicine and Surgery for them in 2021 so I picked Petroleum Engineering. In 2021, JAMB issued me two results. I saw 380 the first time I checked and then the second time, I saw 265.”

But the board’s Public Relations Officer, Fabian Benjamin, claimed that the candidate confessed to the crime.

He said “The candidate who was paraded for forging the Board’s result has confessed after the Board discovered that he saved his sister’s number on his phone as 55019 and used the phone to send the fake result to his phone.

“When he sends such results, they come as 55019.

“He pleaded for mercy that he had to do that when the result he got was not up to what could give him his desired programme.”

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19 year old boy don't have the mental capacity to sue JAMB fucking IPOB terrorists using him for clout

Abi the boy dey craze ni

KillMNKnow:
19 year old boy don't have the mental capacity to sue JAMB fucking IPOB terrorists using him for clout

apply sense now

This is an interesting case. Let's see how the matter goes.

nawa

Dis case get as e b

Following

He should face the law

Even me I'll sue JAMB

All the 7 times I wrote JAMB, I did not score more than 230.

Is it that my parents were lying that I am brilliant.

My first JAMB I wrote with agidi, I still managed to score 215.

Gosh, it's so painful.

This country is headed nowhere. I know this guy in person. He attends the same lesson as me although he later started teaching maths and physics. He even taught me physics for this year's jamb. He's not just good, he's too good. Edu is the definition of intelligence

This is not the first, not the second but the third time jamb is doing this. This year's own was just the height of it.

How can you keep denying a student his real score? Is that how much of a joke this country takes the future of the youths?

I'm not even talking about how bad this year's jamb was. You would check your score this minute and see one thing only to check the next minute to see another thing. Is it that they are using us to catch cruise or what?

When we heard this news at our lesson center, we were shocked because when he came on Tuesday, he told us that they were going to Abuja to defend the results only to hear now that he is in police custody for manipulation of results. What stupid manipulation?

They have turned the whole story upside down just to shut him up.

For his father to sue the court means that he his confident that he can defend the results. If Jamb says he was involved in malpractice, let them give him another exam to write because I'm confident that he would smash it. Just that our system is already corrupted, they might decide to manipulate it again. Infact, I'm just vexed right now. Personally, I feel Edu is too good for this trash we call country. Let them just release him for us. Person we God don bless, Jamb no fit stop am. After dem go say the youths are lazy, the youths are not reading but just look at what they are doing to someone that deserves it. How will this encourage people to study now? Even me here, I am totally discouraged and disappointed with this country. I just tire for Nigeria

Dabyes:
This country is headed nowhere. I know this guy in person. He attends the same lesson as me although he later started teaching maths and physics. He even taught me physics for this year's jamb. He's not just good, he's too good. Edu is the definition of intelligence

This is not the first, not the second but the third time jamb is doing this. This year's own was just the height of it.

How can you keep denying a student his real score? Is that how much of a joke this country takes the future of the youths?

I'm not even talking about how bad this year's jamb was. You would check your score this minute and see one thing only to check the next minute to see another thing. Is it that they are using us to catch cruise or what?

When we heard this news at our lesson center, we were shocked because when he came on Tuesday, he told us that they were going to Abuja to defend the results only to hear now that he is in police custody for manipulation of results. What stupid manipulation?

They have turned the whole story upside down just to shut him up.

For his father to sue the court means that he his confident that he can defend the results. If Jamb says he was involved in malpractice, let them give him another exam to write because I'm confident that he would smash it. Just that our system is already corrupted, they might decide to manipulate it again. Infact, I'm just vexed right now. Personally, I feel Edu is too good for this trash we call country. Let them just release him for us. Person we God don bless, Jamb no fit stop am. After dem go say the youths are lazy, the youths are not reading but just look at what they are doing to someone that deserves it. How will this encourage people to study now? Even me here, I am totally discouraged and disappointed with this country. I just tire for Nigeria

The lawyer will know what to do.

The 19 year old candidate is in Cancun trial

Wahala dey sleep.
Monkey go wake am.

Probably jamb would blacklist his name from any admission henceforth and even universities might reject hi

If not for some silly reasons all the scores he had truly were more than enough for some good courses

If he starts forging results @ 19, only God knows what will happen when he gets older...

Richy4:
If he starts forging results @ 19, only God knows what will happen when he gets older...

Don't conclude easily. There are always two sides of a story

It is like what happened to me when I was doing MSc.

I put my phone on a wall close to where I was writing the first semester exams.

One external supervisor came and asked who got the phone.

I foolishly said it was my phone.

He then turned the back of my exams card and showed me where it was written that students should not so much as come into exams hall with phone.

All my 5 courses of the first semester were cancelled and I was asked to write them again.

That automatically meant my set passed me and I had to write the courses with a new set of students who would be admitted the next year.

It was one of the worst things to happen to me academically.

I wrote the courses the next year and scored "A"s in all the courses.

The previous ones I wrote,I didn't score as good as these last ones.

But guess what: After my external examination, when I was about to collect my statement of result,I discovered the school was using the scores for the exams they cancelled, and not the second scores which were the authentic ones and which would have made me have a first class.

The scores for the exams they cancelled are the ones that are used in my MSc transcript.

Just because they don't want me to have a first class in my MSc

Normally, jamb can be really frustrating but sue for 1bn is just outrageous