The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has refuted a viral report claiming that an unidentified lady obtained a Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) score without actually participating in the exam.
The report circulated online alleging that a Facebook user named Gozie had raised concerns, asserting that a lady who did not attend the UTME examination received scores.
According to the account, Gozie claimed that the girl, scheduled to take the exam at 7 am, encountered technical issues with all systems at her test centre, yet mysteriously obtained examination scores.
In response, JAMB released a statement on Tuesday through its spokesman, Fabian Benjamin, denouncing the report as false. The Board labelled it as malicious and a deliberate effort to undermine its integrity.
JAMB urged the public to disregard such unfounded publications, dismissing them as irresponsible.
“In investigating some of these allegations, the board discovered that some of these mischief makers copy results sent to other candidates, edit the details sent to themselves and then parade this as emanating from the board.
“The board challenges any candidate, parent or anybody with such a claim or information to prove it wrong by coming forward with the details of such claims and the phone number with which such results were conveyed.
“The attitude of these mischief makers would only propel the Board to further tighten the process of checking its results to make it more personalized and would be stringent when it should be a straightforward exercise.
“The board reiterated that neither its results nor any of its processes have been compromised. Hence, it will continue to protect the integrity of its systems against such malicious actors, who are hell-bent on creating confusion where none existed”, JAMB added.
