Father Arrested For Impersonating Son During JAMB’s UTME

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has disclosed that a father was arrested alongside his son by the Police for impersonating the latter during the ongoing Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME).

JAMB Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, who disclosed this while on inspection tour of the UTME centres in Kaduna on Wednesday, said the 2024 examinations were largely well conducted, except for few cases of impersonation, which became possible because some persons now possess multiple National Identity Numbers (NINs).

Prof. Oloyede warned that those who cheat in the exams will be arrested either now or much later after the examinations, saying that JAMB has improved its technology check on those engaging in all forms of examination malpractices.

Speaking to journalists shortly after the inspection at the Kaduna State University University (KASU) CBT Centre, the JAMB Registrar said: “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. For instance now, we say we have NIN, we now have cases of people with two NIN and therefore, that has defeated the purpose of identity verification. We are going to take that up with NIMC, that there are people who have two NIN.

“We have a case of a father impersonating his son, writing examination for the son and I wonder, are you not destroying your son’s future? Of course, two of them are now in custody. I can’t understand what the father will now tell his son when they are both locked up in the same cell. This happened definitely not in Kaduna, but I don’t want to disclose the state.