The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB has withdrawn the result of one Attama Lawrence Ikedichukwu for acts bordering on impersonation in the just-concluded 2021/2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME.
A statement from JAMB, Head of media, Fabian Benjamin said investigations revealed that Lawrence had hired a professional examination taker to sit the examination on his behalf.
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JAMB added that however, his luck ran out when the Board’s post-examination processes discovered that the candidate had been impersonated in the course of the examination.
The statement noted that On further scrutiny, other hidden dimensions to the case were also unravelled which the candidate had admitted to in the course of perpetrating the fraudulent act.
JAMB Spokesman noted that following Management’s consideration and approval of the recommendations of the investigators, the result of Attama Lawrence Ikedichukwu, whose examination was taken on his behalf at the University of Nigeria, MTN Library, Nsukka, Enugu State, on Tuesday, June 22, 2021, during the second session of the examination for that day, be withdrawn.
JAMB restates that no result obtained through fraudulent means would be allowed to stand, noting that the cancellation is in line with the Board’s policy of cancelling any result fraudulently obtained by any candidate even when such had been released.
It further stressed that it has been engaged in the viewing and assessment of all CCTV footages of the examination as well as the adequacy or otherwise of the security measures put in place to forestall examination infractions.
The Board warned that the above-stated case might just be the first of the many that would be unearthed in the course of the review as many more infractions might yet come to light.
The board also revealed that a top security officer who had facilitated the forgery of the Board’s admission letter is being investigated for possible culpability and subsequent prosecution.
(Editor: Abaje Usekwe)
