06/10/2020
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JAMB: Impersonation cases dropped from 74,000 to 4,900 - prof Ishaq Oloyede.
The Registrar, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, prof Ishaq Oloyede, Friday, said effective checks have been mounted by the federal government against incidents of identity theft in the Admission process into the country's tertiary institutions.
Oloyede, who disclosed this at a briefing in Bwari, Abuja, said the government, through the minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu issued a directive, mandating JAMB to transfer candidates' biometric data to their institutions of choice, thus ending fresh capturing of biometrics and pictures of Candidates for POST-UTME tests.
The JAMB boss said Adamu's directive has already uncovered 657 cases of Candidates, whose photographs could not match the ones recorded in JAMB's database and were currently angling to change the photographs, adding that the board has referred those who requested for change of photographs to come down to it's headquarters, with the intention of bringing perpetrators of fraud to book.
Further giving an update on the reduction of identity theft in the UTME process, JAMB Registrar, Oloyede, said incidents of impersonation and other forms of identity theft during the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, dropped from 74,000 in 2019 to 4,900 in 2020.
The JAMB boss while admitting that the 4,900 cases were still high and questionable, said the drastic reduction was triggered by a process introduced by the board which allows officials to take a snapshot of any Candidate who claims he could not be biometrically verified and compare with the picture in JAMB's database.
*SOURCE - Vanguard Newspaper*
*MAURICE AJOGI*