The Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof Is-haq Oloyede, has stated that the board may introduce a new mode of registration in 2018 to checkmate fraudsters.
According to the JAMB boss, who made the remarks at a news conference on Thursday in Lagos, any Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) candidate, defrauded by con men, deserved no sympathy.
The registrar said the board would continue to introduce measures to beat examination malpractice, adding that next year’s examination might have a new registration mode.
“Among the malpractices discovered this year was a case of two different persons having fingerprints for a candidate.
“In this case, it is the impersonator and the person being impersonated conniving with some other persons at the CBT centres.
“However, as they are coming up with all these tricks, we are putting modalities on ground to be ahead of them.
“I want to assure that next year’s examination might not use the current method we used in the examination process.
“People are being criminally innovative, but that will not stop us from moving ahead and protecting the sanctity and integrity of our examination,’’ Oloyede said.
According to him, those candidates, who might have been defrauded deserve no sympathy because they were looking for ways to circumvent the integrity of the UTME.
“Even parents besiege examination centres, looking for means to `corner’ impersonators to hire in order to help their children pass the examination.
“In this case, it is widely observed that family values have been eroded and it is indeed painful.’’ Oloyede said.
The registrar said some `mushroom’ computer based testing (CBT) centres had derailed from the set rules.
“They do not deserve to be assisted as some of them, connive to defraud the innocent public as they do anything possible to make money.
“They even create VIP rooms in their centres by extending JAMB cables into a private room, where they write the examination for candidates for a fee.
Oloyede, however, exonerated some centres, saying they had perfected the vision of JAMB.
He added that the board was encouraging such upcoming and prospective CBT centres to key into the board’s vision. (NAN)
