UTME Candidates Caught Cheating On CCTV Won’t Get Result, JAMB Registrar Vows
Ishaq Oloyede, JAMB Registrar [/caption]
Ishaq Oloyede, the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) registrar, on Thursday, vowed that candidates caught cheating during the just-concluded Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) will not get their results.
Oloyede said this as the examination body said it was relying on footages of Close Circuit Television (CCTV) to identify candidates who may have cheated during the UTME exams.
The registrar said this while serving as guest on Channels Television current affairs programme, ‘Sunrise Daily’.
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“Those who have not received (their results) are qualified not to receive for now. In all cases where there were no problems, we released results of the examination within 24 hours,” the registrar said.
“But those who have not (received their results), they may not be culpable but we are investigating. Where we have reason to doubt anything or where we have report of anything that is not acceptable to us, we have withheld the results.
“And we will keep on releasing them as we clear them. For instance, this morning, we released another 15,000 results. But among those who sat in that centre, we have reasons, concrete evidence to say about 300 of them, their results will not be released because we know they were not in the hall where the examination took place.
“We are comparing those who sat for the examination, how long they sat in the hall, and how some of them took excuses that they were going to the toilet only to go to what they called VIP.
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“All this we are now able to track. And we want to say that we will not hesitate to sanction anybody no matter how highly placed,” he added.
