The Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board (JAMB)
yesterday said it had arrested operators of cyber cafés for defrauding candidates of the
ongoing Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) for N10,000 to access
information on their e-mails.
Its Head of Information, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, said this
yesterday in a statement issued in Abuja.
He said the operators
deliberately changed the e-mail addresses and passwords of candidates to
ensure that messages sent to the candidates by JAMB get to them (operators of
cyber cafes) and in turn sell such information.
“We also appeal to candidates not to allow cheats to defraud
them as we have arrested cyber cafe operators who changed candidates email
addresses and passwords and ensure that
all messages send to candidates get to them and in turn sale such information like
examination notification for N10,000.
“It’s our humble expectation that a candidate aspiring to be
a student in any tertiary institution should be able to operate an email. All
information are send to their email addresses and also on our site for the
public use,” he said.
He said the organisation did not post candidates out of
their preferred towns as was reported in the media.
“Again we want to reiterate that we did not post any
candidate outside his or her town of choice as expressed in their application,
contrary to reports in some quarters. Candidates are always allowed to make a
choice of examination town while we allocate centres within the examination
town chosen by a candidate,” he said.
Fabian hailed the organisation for the successful conduct of
the UTME, which began on Saturday across 642 computer based centres (CBT).
He said: “We are happy that the 2017 UTME, which kicked off
on Saturday, May 13, has been hitch-free so far and in line with the
arrangements put in place for candidates to write the examination without
stress.
“All negative speculation of shift, change of schedules etc
over the ongoing 2017 Unified Tertiary Matriculations Examinations (UTME) are
from mischief-makers, who are desperate to create confusion before or during the
exams, owing to personal and selfish interests that are detrimental to the
development of public examination and education.
“We thank all Nigerians who supported this drive. We promise
that we will continue to fine-tune the process for the better. From the reports
across the federation, there has not been any major hitch on the ongoing UTME
with over 1.7 million registered candidates captured for the examination.”
He advised candidates to check JAMB’s website as well as its
official twitter handle for information concerning the conduct of the
examination.
THE NATION
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