POLICE ARRESTS FATHER FOR WRITING UTME EXAMINATION FOR SON

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 POLICE ARRESTS FATHER FOR WRITING UTME EXAMINATION FOR SON 






The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has revealed that it handed over a father who was caught writing the examination for his son to officers of the Nigeria Police Force. 



JAMB said the police did not only arrested the father but his son also, both for impersonation in the the ongoing Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).


The Registrar of JAMB, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede made the revelation during an inspection tour of UTME centres in Kaduna.


At the Kaduna State University (KASU) CBT Centre, Prof. Oloyede emphasised the futility of cheating.


He said JAMB has enhanced technological measures that can combat examination malpractices. 


Prof. Oloyede recounted a distressing case where a father, in a misguided attempt to aid his son, resorted to impersonation and doing so to jeopardize the young man’s future in the process. 


“We have a case of a father impersonating his son, writing examination for the son and I wonder, are you not destroying your son’s future? 


"Of course, two of them are now in custody. I can’t understand what the father will now tell his son when they are both locked up in the same cell. This definitely happened not in Kaduna, but I don’t want to disclose the state.


"So, it is largely a case of impersonation, but we are ahead of them; we are just picking them up like chickens now, because the facilities are there for us to see what they are doing and to pick them up. 


"And even those that we have left for research purposes, they will see what will happen after the exams,” he said.


The JAMB Registrar underscored the importance of maintaining the integrity of the examination.


He stated that cheating would not go unpunished because of vigilance and advanced technology that have been installed. 


Prof. Oloyede addressed the issue of candidates missing the examination due to their own negligence and said that JAMB would not accommodate such cases at the expense of national resources.


He also expressed overall satisfaction with the conduct of the 2024 examination despite few instances of impersonation. 


Prof. Oloyede attributed such malpractice to the prevalence of individuals possessing multiple National Identity Numbers (NIN), thereby undermining the identity verification process.

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