The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has canceled the registrations of 817 candidates who enrolled to take the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations and Direct Entry examinations.
The examining committee stated that the decision was taken due to the detection of several violations, such as the use of unusual fingerprints during the registration procedure.
Professor Ishaq Oloyede, the examination body’s registrar, revealed in a statement made available to our reporter on Wednesday morning that certain registration officials at the affected 178 Computer-Based Test centres inserted their fingerprints to complete the registration process for the applicants.
The former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ilorin, on the other hand, stated that the 817 affected students will be given a second chance to re-register for the exam, with the centres covering the cost.
“We discovered that some of the students who permitted other individuals to add their fingers to their registration procedure were merely foolish, since you will hear them stating my finger was hot, and the man added his own,” he said. And you let him make his own?
“Some of them did it purposely for impersonation, but we can’t separate those who are real from those who are not genuine. We will revoke all of their registrations and request that they re-register.
“We recently met with the centres implicated, and they all admitted, nobody is denying it, even kids who were saying falsehoods, they know we have the technology that will not enable any lie to be accommodated.” They (the CBT centre owners) proposed the idea on their own. We will revoke such people’s registrations and send them a notification to return to the same centres where they were enrolled, and the CBT centres will reimburse the board the cost of the candidates’ registration.”
Allowing a registration officer or any other person to add his or her finger during the capture of a candidate’s biometric data might result in impersonation in the exam, as well as giving such “weird” people access to modify critical facts such as examination centre, according to the JAMB chief.
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