The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says it has cancelled UTME registrations of 817 candidates in the country.
Is-haq Oloyede, JAMB registrar, broke the news at a meeting
with stakeholders on Tuesday.
The JAMB boss said the registrations were invalidated over
identified infractions bordering on the use of strange biometric fingerprints
in the registration process.
Oloyede said some registration officers in the affected 178
Computer Based Test (CBT) centres added one of their fingerprints to complete
the registration process for the candidates.
He, however, said the 817 students would be given another
opportunity to re-register for the exam with the centres bearing the cost.
“For the students who allowed other people to add their
fingers to their registration procedure. We found that some of them were only
naive, because you will hear them saying my finger was hot, and the man added his own. And you allowed
him to add his own?” he queried.
“Some of them did it deliberately for impersonation but we
can’t identify those who are genuine from those who are not genuine. We will
cancel all of them. All the registrations and we will ask them to re-register.
“The centres involved, we have just met with them, and they
all confessed, nobody is disputing it, even
students that were telling lies, they know we have the technology that
won’t allow any lie to be accommodated.
“On their own (CBT owners), they suggested the solution. We
will cancel the registrations of those people concerned and we will send a
message to them to go back to the very centres
where they were registered and the CBT centres will pay to the board the
cost of registration of the candidates.”
The JAMB registrar advised candidates not to allow anyone to
add their finger during capturing, adding that such amount to impersonation.
“By adding his or her finger to your registration, it means
he or her can change all your particulars when you are not there. You know your
finger is what is used to identify you. The person can change your examination
centre like say from Lagos to Ibadan, and on the exam day you won’t be able to
write the exam,” he added.
“That is why we put in place a device that will throw up any
strange finger that is not yours and that is why we were able to identify
them.”
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