THE Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has apprehended another Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) candidate, Cletus Kokowa, for upgrading his score from 162 to 206 with the help of a fraudster.<\/p>\n
Kokowa became the second candidate to be apprehended by the board following that of Adah Eche who was nabbed last month for similar offense.<\/p>\n
Kokowa confessed before the management of the board on Thursday that he was asked to pay N10,000 for the upgrading.<\/p>\n
The board told reporters that the candidate, with Registration Number 95329290ED from Bayelsa State, contacted the syndicate through a WhatsApp group a few weeks ago where he was told his score could be upgraded from 162.<\/p>\n
It explained that fraudsters later sent a fake result screen shot to Kokowa, stating that his score was now 206.<\/p>\n
However, when the result remained unchanged on the JAMB site, Kokowa\u2019s father, Garen Kokowa, wrote a letter of complaint to the board asking for the rectification of his son\u2019s scores.<\/p>\n
In the letter of complaint addressed to the JAMB Registrar, Prof Is-haq Oloyede, the suspect\u2019s father wrote, \u201cYour inability for swift response to address the issue has led to my son\u2019s forfeiture of his Nigerian Defence Academy admission opportunity.<\/p>\n
\u201cHowever, I am craving your indulgence to quickly rectify the result in affirmative to enable him have a good stand for his second choice of institution.\u201d<\/p>\n
The board thereafter invited Kokowa to come with the two results as a proof, after which he confessed on Thursday to have employed a syndicate.<\/p>\n
His uncle, an army officer, who declined to give his name, accompanied Kokowa to the JAMB headquarters.<\/p>\n
The boy was afterwards handed over to the NSCDC officers.<\/p>\n
Kokowa said, \u201cThose guys sent a mail to me that they could help me to upgrade my score. I then sent them my Registration number and e-mail. When the results were out and I checked, they showed me 206. Then, one of them called me asking me to pay them the money.<\/p>\n
\u201cI later went to check and I found 162. I was confused. I had heard that upgrading scores was an offence but I didn\u2019t really believe it. I did not tell my daddy and my uncle about the syndicate.\u201d<\/p>\n
The JAMB Registrar, Oloyede, said the board would ensure the arrest and prosecution of candidates discovered to be involved in fraudulent practices before, during and after the examination<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
THE Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has apprehended another Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) candidate, Cletus Kokowa, for upgrading his score from 162 to 206 with the help of a fraudster. Kokowa became the second candidate to be apprehended by the board following that of Adah Eche who was nabbed last month for similar offense. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":8483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30],"tags":[246,38,610,658],"class_list":["post-12379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-community","tag-election","tag-jamb","tag-utme"],"yoast_head":"\n