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JAMB Hands Over 19-Year-Old Candidate To Police

JAMB has handed over a 19-year-old candidate to the police.

EKOHOTBLOG reports that the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), on Friday, handed over a 19-year-old candidate in the just concluded 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), Chinedu Ifesinachi John, to police for investigation.

It was learnt that the UTME candidate had claimed he scored 380 in the examination conducted in June 2021 and was surprised to receive 265 from the JAMB after the results were released.

John, EKOHOTBLOG reports, had further claimed that after several enquiries over the alleged mix-up on his result, he continued to see 265 as his score against the 380 he claimed.

Following his alleged “alteration” of the result, his father, John Ifenkpam had approached an Enugu-based lawyer, Ikeazor Akaiwe, who wrote to JAMB demanding another opportunity for the candidate to retake the examination and N1 billion as damages.

The lawyer stated that the N1 billion was to cover for the physical and emotional trauma the UTME candidate had been through from being offered “two separate scores.”

EKOHOTBLOG reports that John further claimed that his UTME scores from 2019 till 2021 had been “altered” by JAMB, adding that the board has denied him the opportunity to study medicine at a tertiary institution in the country.

However, the management of the examination body led by the JAMB Registrar, Prof Ishaq Oloyede, on Friday, invited the UTME candidate, his father, and lawyers to Abuja from Enugu State for clarifications.

Upon their arrival, EKOHOTBLOG gathered that JAMB tendered evidence to counter the 380 scores as claimed by John and his legal representatives.

The evidence tendered by the board revealed that John scored 265, and not the 380 he had claimed.

The JAMB Registrar, therefore, accused John and his lawyers of result tampering, adding that the UMTE candidate will be handed over to the police for further investigation and subsequently prosecuted.

Oloyede added that John was among eleven other candidates who allegedly forged their results, noting that JAMB is working towards prosecuting them.

He further stated that the original result issued to John would be withdrawn pending the end of the investigation.

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