CBT OPERATORS BLINDED CCTV CAMERAS WITH SACKS TO FRUSTRATE REMOTE DETECTION MALPRACTICE—-JAMB REGISTRAR

Examination body, Joint Admission and
Matriculation Board on Thursday states that
the results of candidates identified in footages
of Close Circuit Television (CCTV) to have
indulged in unwholesome practices during the
just-concluded Unified Tertiary Matriculation
Examination (UTME) won’t be released.
Registar of JAMB, Ishaq Oloyede, who spoke
with newsmen said the
agency had been busy in the past days
reviewing recorded footages of the
examination across the country, and that a
number of candidates had been marked out
for sanction.
Oloyede, was responding to a question by one
of the anchors of the programme on why
some candidates were yet to receive their
results despite promises by JAMB to release
outcomes within 24 hours.
The registrar said, “Those who have not
received (their results) are qualified not to
receive for now. In all cases where there were
no problems, we released results of the
examination within 24 hours.
“But those who have not (received their
results), they may not be culpable but we are
investigating. Where we have reason to doubt
anything or where we have report of anything
that is not acceptable to us, we have withheld
the results.
“And we will keep on releasing them as we
clear them. For instance, this morning, we
released another 15,000 results. But among
those who sat in that centre, we have reasons,
concrete evidence to say about 300 of them,
their results will not be released because we
know they were not in the hall where the
examination took place.
“We are comparing those who sat for the
examination, how long they sat in the hall,
and how some of them took excuses that they
were going to the toilet only to go to what
they called VIP…
“All this we are now able to track. And we
want to say that we will not hesitate to
sanction anybody no matter how highly
placed.”
Mr. Oloyede said the CCTV cameras deployed
at every Computer Based Test (CBT) centres
across the country helped JAMB to detect and
arrest unwholesome practices.
He said some centre operators however tried
to sabotage his agency’s plan to make the
examination fraud-free, citing the example of
a centre in Kubwa, Abuja, where operators
blinded the cameras with sacks to frustrate
remote detection of malpractices that
happened there.
The JAMB registrar appealed to credible
organisations and individuals to come forward
to partner JAMB in the establishment of
reputable CBT centres across the country.
“Crooks are now establishing CBT centres, and
meeting our requirements only to misuse the
opportunities,” he said.

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