The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board(JAMB) has uncovered massive cyber fraud and irregularities in the ongoing registration for the 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination(UTME), with the fate of hundreds of candidates who are victims hanging in the balance.
Operators of the 38 registration centres and their accomplices indicted by JAMB for various infractions were nabbed on Wednesday in Abuja and handed over to the police for prosecution.
The Board also retrieved about 48 laptops used by the suspects to commit cyber fraud as evidence against them. The laptops were confiscated when the crack teams from the Board were deployed to the registration centres across the country.
The suspects were lured to Abuja under the guise of a meeting with the management of JAMB at its headquarters, Bwari. Unknown to them that they were on their way to cool their feet in the police net, Oloyede handed them over to the waiting officers after long hours of interrogation.
The JAMB boss said prima facie case had been established against them and that the onus was on them to prove their innocence during prosecution in the court of law by the police.
Some of them were accused of extending the Virtual Private Network (VPN) of JAMB allocated to the accredited Computer Based Test (CBT) Centres to some cyber cafe operators for the purpose of illegal registration of candidates for the 2020 UTME.
JAMB also discovered that some of the suspects created fictitious user names and National Identity Number (NIN), which the Board set as a prerequisite for anyone that would participate in the registration exercise and conduct of the 2020 UTME.
