Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps Operatives have arrested one, Cletus Kokowa, a Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination candidate who reportedly hired a syndicate to upgrade his scores from 162 to 206.
The candidate from Bayelsa State with Registration Number 95329290ED, was arrested at the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board headquarters in Bwari, Abuja, after he paid N10,000 to the syndicate group he contacted via WhatsApp.
Speaking on the arrest, JAMB Registrar, Oloyede said “One of the popular claims candidates usually make is that JAMB issued two different UTME results to them. But I said it was a lie because this result was processed via information and communication technology. When this boy came with his complaint, I asked for his records to be brought and we discovered that he had contacted fraudsters who gave him a fake result. We discovered that the result given to him was an imposition of another candidate’s result on his own. He is with the NSCDC and he will be handed over to the police for prosecution.”