The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board has arrested a 19-year-old girl and handed it over to police for falsifying her Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination score.
Identified as Rejoice Mordi, the candidate was arrested at JAMB Headquarters in Abuja where she and her father, Frank Mordi have gone to lodge complaint about two result slip.
She was found to have increased her JAMB score from 164 to 264.
Upon her arrest, Rejoice confirmed that she got fake results from one Iyanuoluwa via a WhatsApp conversation. She said that an agent after collecting her registration number and that of other three candidates sent the doctored results to them.
JAMB’s bulletin released on Sunday September 9, reads;
“The 19-year-old who falsified her 2019 UTME result from 164 to 264 had petitioned us for (allegedly) giving her two results in the 2019 UTME. The board, upon receipt of the complaint, invited the candidate who appeared before the board in company of her father, Frank Emordi.
“The Registrar, Prof Is-haq Oloyede, read the riot act to the petitioner and her father and gave them a grace period to retrace their steps, knowing that there is forensic analysis that she falsified the score.
“Upon the expiration of the opportunity, after thorough examination of the evidence, the candidate owned up to her misdeeds. She said the agent sent the inflated result to her through a Whatsapp group which she had deleted.
“Checks by the board revealed that the candidate had made three successful attempts at checking her result. However, on the candidate’s dashboard, 164 score still remained. She had since been handed over to security agents for further interrogation.
“The candidate’s father appealed to the registrar, saying, “I talked to her (Rejoice) and she said a guy she met at the centre collected her registration number and three of her friends.
“The man was the one who forwarded the results to them through Whatsapp. If she had informed me about that, I would not have followed her to the JAMB office.”
