cases of people having double national identification numbers (NIN) made
impersonation possible in the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination
(UTME).
The statement from the exam body came after a father and his
son were arrested for alleged impersonation in the ongoing UTME.
The father, whose name has not been disclosed, was said to
have impersonated his son to help the latter pass the university entrance
examination.
Ishaq Oloyede, registrar of the Joint Admission and
Matriculation Board (JAMB), confirmed the development in an interview on
Wednesday.
Oloyede inspected the Kaduna State University (KASU)
Computer Based Test (CBT) centre after which he spoke to the press.
He said it is unfortunate that some parents have descended
so low in morals to the extent of resorting to such shameful acts.
“Two of them are now in custody. I can’t understand what the
father will tell his son when they are locked in the same cell,” Oloyede said.
Oloyede said the 2024 examination recorded huge success,
except for a few cases of impersonation.
He said impersonation became possible because some people
now have multiple NINs.
“For those who engage in cheating, they should know that it
does not pay. The technology is helping us to check that. Across the country,
most of the problem we have is impersonation,” he said.
“For instance now, we say we have NIN. We now have cases of
people with two NINs. That has defeated the purpose of identity verification.
We will take that up with NIMC; that there are people who have two NIN.”
Oloyede said a total of 1.94 million candidates sat for the
2024 UTME.
He added that those who have missed the exam for reasons not
caused by JAMB should forget about it.
The registrar said the board cannot spend millions to
reorganise a session for candidates who missed it due to their recklessness.
“Most of those candidates who missed the UTME are students
from hostels who were made to register through schools because of the money the
schools want to collect from the parents in the name of JAMB, They would now
put 30 students in one bus,” he said.
“They will now be
dropping them in different locations. By they get to the last student’s centre,
he is already late for the exam. You will now see the principal writing to me.
What business do I have with a school?
“Even a religious body wrote to me that ‘the following 100
candidates, I want them to write their exams on a particular day of the
examination’. They were even deciding for me the school to post the candidates.
How is that possible?”
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