[BREAKING NEWS] JAMB Hands More than 180 Candidates to Police

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has given more than 180 candidates in the simply closed Unified Tertiary Matriculations Examination (UTME) to the police for indictment over supposed inclusion in examination malpractice.

It said 70 percent of the students have been charged, while others are experiencing investigation.

JAMB's Head of Media and Information, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, unveiled this yesterday in a meeting in Abuja.

He said the candidates were arrested across the country during the conduct of the examination that ended last Saturday.

The board had on Sunday distributed the names and conditions of a portion of the candidates fingered in examination misbehaviors in its week after week announcement, with Imo, Anambra and Enugu states beating the rundown with 26, 12 and 12 applicants.

A portion of their offenses included: examination by proxy, attempt to cheat, forceful entrance, tampering with examination documents, smuggling of phones into the examination halls, among others.

Different states on the rundown of acts of malpractice are Abia, Adamawa, Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano, Kwara, Ondo, Oyo and Osun.

The JAMB representative said that the captured applicants were with the police, including that their arraignment had begun.

He stated: “They are about 180 candidates. We arrested them all over the country. We are harmonising the list and following up on it to ensure that all of them are arraigned.

“Most of them have been arraigned already. Seventy per cent of them have been arraigned already.

“They (the candidates) are with the police. So the police will prosecute them. We don’t have prosecuting powers. When the police start prosecution, they will certainly get across to us.

“Most of them have even been arraigned. When the arraignment is concluded, we will give you a comprehensive report..

“When we get to a stage that is important for everyone to know, we will let you know. But some of them have already been arraigned by the police.”