Opeyemi Adelere
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has handed over 180 candidates, who allegedly engaged in malpractices in the just concluded Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME), to the Police for prosecution.
JAMB’s Head of Media and Information, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, made this known during an interview on Thursday in Abuja.
According to him, the alleged candidates were arrested across the country, during the conduct of the examination, which ended last Saturday.
Recall that the Board, in its weekly bulletin, had on Sunday published the names and states of origin of the candidates, with Imo and Anambra topping the list among others.
Benjamin said 70 per cent of the candidates had been arraigned by the police in various courts for similar misconducts while others were undergoing investigation and would also face trial thereafter.
“They are about 180 candidates. We arrested them all over the country. We are harmonising the list and following up on it to ensure that all of them are arraigned. Most of them have been arraigned already. Seventy per cent of them have been arraigned already.
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“They (the candidates) are with the police. So the police will prosecute them. We don’t have prosecuting powers. When the police start prosecution, they certainly get across to us.
“Most of them have even been arraigned. When the arraignment is concluded, we will give you a comprehensive report.
“When we get to a stage that is important for everyone to know, we will let you know. But some of them have already been arraigned by the police.”
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