The Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), the body responsible for the conduct of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), Is-haq Oloyede, has spoken on the controversies surrounding the alleged fake result being claimed a candidate who sat the 2023 examination, Ejikeme Mmesoma.
This is as the candidate in a viral video has insisted that the controversial score of 362 claimed by her was printed from the examination body’s website.
But Mr Oloyede has said investigations by his agency revealed that the accused candidate “was either duped or she is a member of a high-level syndicate engaging in manufacturing fake UTME results.”
Speaking on the matter on Monday evening, JAMB registrar, Mr Oloyede, insisted that the document being displayed by Miss Mmesoma “belongs to another candidate who sat the examination two years ago.”
He said: “If you scan the code, the candidate’s result will show. So I can say emphatically that the girl is parading a fake result. It is either she is being duped, or she is part of a syndicate manufacturing purported JAMB results.
“There are security features on our results, so I can emphasise that the girl is just trying to deceive the public. Her result is completely fake. Her claim that she printed the result from our site is a lie, totally incorrect. If we should reveal all that we know, people will be shocked. So if people are looking for shortcuts to achieve an end, that is what would happen.”
JAMB said the matter has nothing to do with its system, saying nobody hacked into its system and that the result did not emanate from its system. “The result she is holding is completely fake because we are able to track everything printed from our system.”
Meanwhile, the examination body has insisted that there are various syndicates engaging in the manufacturing of fake results.
The JAMB boss said the stakes are high for the scammers, noting that they have been successfully scamming unsuspecting persons.
