Opeyemi Adelere
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has alerted candidates and parents to the activities of fraudsters calling for the upgrade of scores in the just concluded Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). JAMB gave the warning through its Anti-Corruption and Transparency Unit (ACTU).
The board in the weekly bulletin by its Head of Media and Information, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, in Abuja, described the call for score upgrade as an act devised to defraud candidates and their parents, adding that the board had never carried out such before, and would never condone such.
“The Anti-Corruption and Transparency Unit of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board wishes to advise parents, guardians and candidates in particular that there is nothing called ‘JAMB score upgrade. This has never existed and will never be condoned by the board.
“Parents/guardians and candidates alike are to note that the so-called score upgrade is simply a scam perpetrated by fraudsters to deceive unsuspecting and gullible candidates, their parents or their guardians as the case may be.
“Therefore, any parent/guardian/ candidate that gets himself/herself involved in such a fraudulent act is doing so at his/her own peril and should be ready to face the full wrath of the law when caught.”
Recall that JAMB had earlier directed candidates with any challenge or complaint arising from the UTME to its ticketing platform.
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According to the board, the ticketing platform would address such complaints or enquiries. It further stated that 4,000 cases had been resolved since the Federal Government declared the lockdown of Lagos, Ogun and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
JAMB workers are said to be working from home to have the complaints resolved while other activities, such as printing of original results slips and changing of programmes and institution would commence as soon as the lockdown directive is taken down.
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