The fraudsters were arrested from various location of the country where they were perpetuating their nefarious activities. The were arrested from Oyo, Ogun and Maiduguri by officers and men of the NSCDC and brought to Abuja where startling revelations of their operations were made.

In the presence of   Abdullahi Gana Mohamadu, commandant general, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, the fraudsters confessed  to numerous registration infractions that the board couldn’t imagine.

Some of these registration thieves are Computer-Based Test, CBT, centres owners licensed by JAMB to conduct registration exercise for the candidates planning to take the forthcoming UTME.

More worrisome is the massive investment by  E- Kindle CBT centres  to penetrate the airtel system we are using to perpetrate all forms of wholesome practices. The register candidates without proper biometric which means such candidates will have problems with their details during examination if not corrected immediately.

From  investigation at the headquarters of the NSCDC, it was clear that they had powerful men backing them to thwart the efforts of JAMB. If not, how will you justify them spending over N20 million to construct a radio platform  just to hack into the Board’s registration exercise if not to destroy the entire system and put JAMB in bad light?

Some of the location from which these criminal elements were operating  include Oyo state, Ogun state and Kwara.

JAMB had given access code only to accredited CBT centres to partake in the registration exercise but these operators  in turn used the privilege information at their disposal in connivance with Honey comb centre and Bright international  for pecuniary motive and create confusion for the examination  body as procedures, guidelines and standards were compromised.

In Maiduguri, the Board discovered that their router meant for Abia was being used in Maiduguri to register candidates

Unknown to them, the access codes are personalised coupled with features to detect abuses aimed at circumventing the registration process. They fradulently tried  to manipulate the system to give a semblance of the Board platform to deceive  candidates as if a valid registration have been carried out.

These registration thieves deployed fake biometric capturing mechanisms and super-imposed  registration slip just to satisfy the curiosity of innocent candidates that their registration  was successful  and on the day of examination  such candidates data would either be edited, or not found on the JAMB data base, such candidates would not be verified during the examination proper.

This investigation has clearly shown that the Board under Prof. Is-haq Oloyede may be in for a bigger fight given his stand on anti-corruption.

Apr 22, 2017 @ 9:38 GMT