UTME: JAMB Cancels Registration of 817 Candidates Over Impersonation
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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says it has cancelled UTME
registrations of 817 candidates in the country.
Is-haq Oloyede,
JAMB registrar, broke the news at a meeting with stakeholders on
Tuesday.
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The JAMB boss said the registrations were invalidated over identified
infractions bordering on the use of strange biometric fingerprints in the
registration process.
Oloyede said some registration officers in
the affected 178 Computer Based Test (CBT) centres added one of their
fingerprints to complete the registration process for the candidates.
He, however, said the 817 students would be given another
opportunity to re-register for the exam with the centres bearing the cost.
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“For the students who allowed other people to add their fingers to their
registration procedure. We found that some of them were only naive, because
you will hear them saying my finger was hot, and the man added his own. And
you allowed him to add his own?” he queried.
“Some of them did it
deliberately for impersonation but we can’t identify those who are genuine
from those who are not genuine. We will cancel all of them. All the
registrations and we will ask them to re-register.
“The centres
involved, we have just met with them, and they all confessed, nobody is
disputing it, even students that were telling lies, they know we have the
technology that won’t allow any lie to be accommodated.
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“On their own (CBT owners), they suggested the solution. We will cancel
the registrations of those people concerned and we will send a message to them
to go back to the very centres where they were registered and the CBT centres
will pay to the board the cost of registration of the candidates.”
The
JAMB registrar advised candidates not to allow anyone to add their finger
during capturing, adding that such amount to impersonation.
“By
adding his or her finger to your registration, it means he or her can change
all your particulars when you are not there. You know your finger is what is
used to identify you. The person can change your examination centre like say
from Lagos to Ibadan, and on the exam day you won’t be able to write the
exam,” he added.
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“That is why we put in place a device that will throw up any strange
finger that is not yours and that is why we were able to identify them.”
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