Education

JAMB exposes another student who scored 380 without writing UTME

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1 year ago

July 3, 2023

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has said it will prosecute candidates who are defrauding Nigerians with the claims that they had excellent results in the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).

The examination body made this known as it exposes another student who hailed from Kaduna state for falsifying his result.

JAMB specifically mentioned Atung Gerald from Kaduna state who claimed to have scored 380 in the UTME, but had neither obtained the 2023 UTME application documents nor participated in the examination, The SUN News reported.

It explained that a certain software were being used to fake version of results and put the same out in the public space for fun, while the alleged sponsors of the candidates use same to defraud good-spirited Nigerians.

JAMB spokesman, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, made this disclosure through a statement, Premium Times report added. “A similar case of one Atung Gerald in Kaduna, who claimed to have scored 380, and his ethnic group was requesting that he should be given special recognition, only for the Board to disappoint them with the incontestable fact that Atung never obtained the 2023 UTME application documents not to talk of sitting the examination,” Dr. Fabian stated.

Dr. Fabian, on behalf of JAMB, advised the public to always cross-check the claims by candidates with the Board before rushing to honour them with undeserving awards.