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A report by Punch Metro has shown that the Joint Admissions and
Matriculation Board has said it will release no fewer than 1.3 million
results of candidates that sat for the 2018 Unified Tertiary
Matriculation Examination on Tuesday (today) after they had gone through
security checks and found to be without malpractice.
The JAMB Head of Information, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, who stated this
on Sunday in an interview with Punch Metro, added that the UTME results
of Computer-Based Test centres where the CCTV showed malpractices had
been cancelled.
The board said the CCTV showed “strange things” such as CBT centre
owners collecting money from candidates to engage in malpractices and
also threatening JAMB officials at the centres.
The JAMB spokesman said, “We are presently viewing the CCTV to
ensure that results are not released in several batches. On Monday, we
will release over 1.3 million results. These are the results of the CBT
centres that have been screened. We cannot say how many cases of
malpractice we have yet, because we are still viewing the CCTV to
discover more cases.
“Some strange findings that the CCTV has showed us include a
situation where the CBT owners were collecting money from UTME
candidates and seeing to how they could assist them. Our officials at
the centres raised the alarm but they were also afraid so that their
lives would not be endangered.
“What the JAMB officials did was to silently play along with
them, but we were watching everything on the CCTV. We later sent
operatives to the centres and c@ught them. Such UTME results were
completely cancelled. We knew that there were some innocent candidates
in such centres and we have asked them to go to other CBT centres and
rewrite immediately.”
Benjamin said candidates whose fingers could not be captured during
the biometric verification before the examination, would not be allowed
to retake the examination, as the biometric verification had already
disqualified them.
“We have also concluded all arrangements to do the UTME for
blind candidates. The examination is taking place in five centres. These
are Abuja, Lagos, Kano, Benin and Enugu. The candidates are writing on
Monday (today),” he added.
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