The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has said it has arrested no fewer than 50 professional examination writers who sat for candidates in the ongoing Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
The spokesman of the agency, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, disclosed this in the agency’s weekly bulletin published yesterday.
According to him, the impostors were arrested nationwide as a result of the various intelligence gathering mechanisms of the board.
Benjamin revealed that some of the suspects arrested were Master’s degree holders, postgraduate and undergraduate students of various tertiary institutions.
He added that they connived with owners and operators of some Computer Based Test Centres (CBT) to carry out the crime by engaging in multiple registrations, where the fingerprints of the main candidates were captured side-by-side with that of the impostors.
“The modus operandi of these UTME syndicates was confirmed when one…
