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Father, Son Arrested For Impersonation In 2024 UTME: JAMB Reveals Shocking Details
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JAMB has announced the arrest of a father and son for impersonation in the 2024 UTME.
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Approximately 1.94 million candidates nationwide have taken the exam.
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JAMB Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, reveals improved technology aiding in detecting malpractice.
EKO HOT BLOG reports that the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced the arrest of two individuals, a father and son, suspected of impersonation during the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination.
According to JAMB, approximately 1.94 million candidates took the exam nationwide.
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The JAMB Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, disclosed this information to the press after observing the exam at the Kaduna State University CBT Centre on Wednesday.
However, he declined to reveal the identities of the individuals involved or the location where the alleged malpractice occurred.
He said, “For those who engage in cheating, they should know that it does not pay.
“The technology is helping us to check that.
“Across the country, most of the problems we have is impersonation. For instance, now, we say we have NIN, we now have cases of people with two NINs and therefore that has defeated the purpose of identity verification.
“We are going to take that up with NIMC that there are people who have two NINs.
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“We have a case of a father impersonating his son, writing an 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 happened definitely not in Kaduna, but I don’t want to disclose the state.
“So, it is largely cases of impersonation, but we are ahead of them; we are just picking them up like chicken now because the facilities are there for us to see what they are doing and to pick them up.”
He noted that at the end of the examination today, there would be less than 100,000 candidates remaining in Lagos, Benue and other states in the country.
He added that JAMB’s improved technology made the exercise smoother and faster.
“Today, I have seen something which we need to improve on, but most importantly, we have done so many things in the background to make the exercise faster, more efficient and better. We have increased the level of automation.
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“This year, 1.94 million candidates are writing UTME. By the end of today, we would have less than 100,000 remaining.
“By the end of today, what will be remaining will be Lagos, Makurdi and other few places in the country,” he added.
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