THE Registrar and Chief Executive, Joint Matriculation Board (JAMB), Professor Dibu Ojerinde, on Wednesday, spoke of his experience of how ingenious Nigerians could be with examination malpractices.
Sharing his recent on-the-field experience with the chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Lamorde, during a visit on the latter, Ojerinde said “there is this particular case of a woman in Ikirun, Osun State. During the examination, a search was conducted on her and the scanner gave indication that there were foreign metal objects in her body.
“All entreaties to her to bring out what was on her failed, until a woman supervisor had to take her to a closet and UnCloth her, only to discover that a handset was prepared just like a pad in her private part.
“It was that bad. If we had not used the scanner, we couldn’t have detected it. Even at that, I am sure there were people that still went away with it.”
He also disclosed that in the last Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), two individuals who designed bathroom slippers that accommodated handsets were arrested.
He asked EFCC to offer assistance to the board in curbing myriad of malpractices plaguing the conduct of public examinations in Nigeria.