2019 UTME Candidate
Arrested of Paying N10,000 to Upgrade Score
The Nigerian Security
and Civil Defence Corps has arrested a Unified Tertiary Matriculation
Examination candidate, Cletus Kokowa, for reportedly hiring a syndicate to
upgrade his scores from 162 to 206. The candidate with Registration Number
95329290ED from Bayelsa State, was arrested on Thursday at the Joint Admissions
and Matriculation Board headquarters in Bwari, Abuja, where he confessed that
he was asked to pay N10,000 for the upgrading.
Reports say that
Cletus contacted the syndicate through a WhatsApp group a few weeks ago after
he learnt that they could upgrade his score from 162. He was later sent a false
result notification which stated that his score was now 206. However, his UTME results
remained the same on the JAMB portal, this led the father of the boy to
write a letter of complaint to the board to correct Cletus' score.
Kokowa arrived
JAMB headquarters with his uncle who is an army officer, following the
board invitation to come with the two results as proof, after which he
confessed on Thursday to have employed a syndicate.
He said, “Those
people sent a mail to my electronic mail inbox that they could help me to
upgrade my score. I then sent them my registration number and e-mail address.
When the results were released and I checked, they showed me 206. Then, one of
them called me and demanded payment.
“I later went to check
and I found 162. I was confused. I had heard that upgrading scores was an
offence, but I didn’t really believe it. I did not tell my father and my uncle
about the syndicate"
Concerning the
incident, the JAMB Registrar, Oloyede, said the board would ensure the
arrest and prosecution of candidates discovered to have engaged in fraudulent
practices before, during and after the examination.
He said, “One of the
popular claims candidates usually make is that JAMB issued two different UTME
results to them. But I said it was a lie because this result was processed via
information and communication technology.
“When this boy came
with his complaint, I asked for his records to be brought and we discovered
that he had contacted fraudsters who gave him a fake result. We discovered that
the result given to him was an imposition of another candidate’s result on his
own.
“He is with the NSCDC and
he will be handed over to the police for prosecution.”
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