The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related offences Commission (ICPC) have gotten additional job of monitoring the examination centres for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UMTE). Also to be involved are police and other law enforcement officers.
According to the registrar of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Professor Is-haq Oloyede in a chat with newsmen in Abuja, each test centre will have a supervisor, a technical officer, a verification officer, three proctors as well as security agents.
“Each state will be superintended over by a head of a tertiary institution (Vice-Chancellor, Rector or Provost) who coordinates the supervisors under his or her jurisdiction”, Oloyede added.
“It is certainly not going to be business as usual in the conduct of the Board’s examination and other processes.
“In line with this resolution, the Board had secured through diligent prosecution, the conviction of two Nigerians who forged the Board’s results and came around for verification.
“At the moment, we have lodged complaints against a number of Computer-Based Test, CBT, centre owners for one infraction or the other and a number of them were arrested, cautioned, while others are to be prosecuted so as to serve as a deterrent to others”, he added.
The JAMB boss warned candidates not to fall for the ploy of fraudsters who he said were out to defraud them.
He pointed out a case at the Federal Government Science Technical College, Orozo,Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja, where somebody was sending bulk messages to candidates to come and reprint their slips claiming to be from JAMB. [myad]
