The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has caught no fewer than 400 impersonators during the 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) and is set to prosecute 200 of them.
JAMB registrar, Ish-aq Oloyede, who made this known today, February 10 at a news briefing in Abuja, said: “this year, we had over 400 people that were caught whereby those who wrote the exams were different from those who applied
“About 200 of the candidates would be prosecuted; five from each state of the federation, as JAMB does not have the resources to prosecute all the 400 candidates. Prosecuting a candidate would cost the board over N500,000.”
Oloyede said that examination fraud syndicates in the Computer-Based Test centres, which used to be in the Southern part of Nigeria, has now crept into the North.
The board spokesman paraded one Buhari Abubakar, who was caught in an attempt to impersonate one Muhammad Sanusi, his alleged accomplice, in examination malpractice.
Both suspects, from Kano State, were arrested by men of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC).
Oloyede said that JAMB will expend about N100 million on the prosecution of 200 of the over 400 persons involved in impersonation in the 2020 UTME.
He alleged that some tertiary institutions are accomplices in the widespread irregularities, adding that the first 64 cases of CBT infractions treated by JAMB were from the North, with some having multiple cases of up to 96 irregularities.
“In Nigeria, people don’t copy good things but the bad things.
“The cases of exam malpractices which used to be in the South has now crept to the North and the first 20 of such cases we tracked came mostly from the North, especially Kano.“
