A revelation by the leadership of the Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board (JAMB) stipulates that some cyber cafe operators colluded with applicants to cheat.
JAMB students writing exams
The Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board (JAMB) yesterday said it had arrested operators of cyber cafés for defrauding candidates of the ongoing Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) for N10,000 to access information on their e-mails.
Its Head of Information, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, said this yesterday in a statement issued in Abuja.
He
said the operators deliberately changed the e-mail addresses and
passwords of candidates to ensure that messages sent to the candidates
by JAMB get to them (operators of cyber cafes) and in turn sell such
information.
“We also appeal to candidates not
to allow cheats to defraud them as we have arrested cyber cafe
operators who changed candidates email addresses and passwords and
ensure that all messages send to candidates get to them and in turn sale
such information like examination notification for N10,000.
“It’s
our humble expectation that a candidate aspiring to be a student in any
tertiary institution should be able to operate an email. All
information are send to their email addresses and also on our site for
the public use,” he said.
He said the organisation did not post candidates out of their preferred towns as was reported in the media.
“Again
we want to reiterate that we did not post any candidate outside his or
her town of choice as expressed in their application, contrary to
reports in some quarters.
Candidates are
always allowed to make a choice of examination town while we allocate
centres within the examination town chosen by a candidate,” he said.
Fabian
hailed the organisation for the successful conduct of the UTME, which
began on Saturday across 642 computer based centres (CBT).
He said: “We
are happy that the 2017 UTME, which kicked off on Saturday, May 13, has
been hitch-free so far and in line with the arrangements put in place
for candidates to write the examination without stress.
“All
negative speculation of shift, change of schedules etc over the ongoing
2017 Unified Tertiary Matriculations Examinations (UTME) are from
mischief-makers, who are desperate to create confusion before or during
the exams, owing to personal and selfish interests that are detrimental
to the development of public examination and education.
“We
thank all Nigerians who supported this drive. We promise that we will
continue to fine-tune the process for the better. From the reports
across the federation, there has not been any major hitch on the ongoing
UTME with over 1.7 million registered candidates captured for the
examination.”
He advised candidates to check
JAMB’s website as well as its official twitter handle for information
concerning the conduct of the examination.