UTME CANDIDATE ARRESTED FOR PAYING N10,000 TO UPGRADE SCORE

The Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps has arrested a Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination candidate, Cletus Kokowa, for reportedly hiring a syndicate to upgrade his scores from 162 to 206. The candidate with Registration Number 95329290ED from Bayelsa State, was arrested on Thursday at the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board headquarters in Bwari, Abuja, where he confessed that he was asked to pay N10,000 for the upgrading.

Reports say that Cletus contacted the syndicate through a WhatsApp group a few weeks ago after he learnt that they could upgrade his score from 162. He was later sent a false result notification which stated that his score was now 206. However, his UTME results remained the same on the JAMB portal, this led the father of the boy to write a letter of complaint to the board to correct Cletus' score. 

Kokowa arrived JAMB headquarters with his uncle who is an army officer, following the board invitation to come with the two results as proof, after which he confessed on Thursday to have employed a syndicate.

He said, Those guys  sent a mail to me through my electronic mail (E-Mail) inbox that they could help me in upgrading my Jambscore that all I need was just to trust them. I then sent them my registration number and e-mail address. When the results were released and I had to check to confirm which the showed me 206. Then, one of them called me and demanded payment.

“I later went to check it out by myself and  I found 162. I was confused. I had heard that upgrading jambscores was an offence, but I didn’t actually believed it. I did not tell my father and my uncle about the incident"

Concerning the incident, the JAMB Registrar, Oloyede, said the board would ensure the arrest and prosecution of candidates discovered to have involved  in the fraudulent practices before, during and after the examination so as to maintain their standard.

He said, One of the popular claims candidates normally make is that JAMB had issued them two different UTME results  not knowing that the went for upgrade which there are been defraud of their parents money or guidance. But I said it was a lie because this result was processed via information and communication technology through jamb database.

“When this boy came with his compliant  Iasked for his records to be brought and we discovered that he had contacted fraudsters who gave him a fake result which was not found in our record. We discovered that the result given to him by the fraudsters was an imposition of another candidate’s result on his own which had been edited by them.

“He is with the NSCDC and he will be handover to the police for dealings and prosecution.”

Beware of fraudsters Candidate, don't be the next victim cause Jamb won't take it easy with you. Jamb upgrade is not real instead you are been defraud of your parent money.

Be wise