Father Arrested For Impersonating Son During JAMB’s UTME

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has disclosed that a father was arrested alongside his son by the Police for impersonating the latter during the ongoing Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME).

JAMB Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, who disclosed this while on inspection tour of the UTME centres in Kaduna on Wednesday, said the 2024 examinations were largely well conducted, except for few cases of impersonation, which became possible because some persons now possess multiple National Identity Numbers (NINs).

Prof. Oloyede warned that those who cheat in the exams will be arrested either now or much later after the examinations, saying that JAMB has improved its technology check on those engaging in all forms of examination malpractices.

Speaking to journalists shortly after the inspection at the Kaduna State University University (KASU) CBT Centre, the JAMB Registrar said: “For those who engage in cheating, they should know that it does not pay. The technology is helping us to check that.

The JAMB Registrar also used the opportunity to inform those that have missed the exams for reasons not caused by the examination body, to forget about it, saying that JAMB cannot spend tens of millions of naira of the nation’s resources to reorganise another session for few candidates who missed the exams due to their personal recklessness