19-Year-Old Boy Who Sued JAMB For N1 Billion Handed Over To Police

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board mentioned it has handed over a 19-year-old candidate within the 2021-2022 Unified Tertiary and Matriculation Examination to the police for investigation over what it described as “outcome tampering.”

In response to the board’s Registrar, Prof Ishaq Oloyede, who briefed journalists at JAMB’s headquarters in Abuja on Friday, the candidate, Chinedu John, had claimed he scored 380 within the examination performed in June however was stunned to obtain 265 from the board after the outcomes had been launched.

He mentioned following alleged “alteration” of the UTME rating, the candidate’s father, John Ifenkpam, approached an Enugu-based lawyer, Ikeazor Akaiwe, who wrote to JAMB for an additional alternative for the boy to retake the examination and demanded N1 billion as damages.

In response to Oloyede, the lawyer mentioned the N1 billion was to cowl for the bodily and emotional trauma the boy had been by means of from being supplied “two separate scores.”

The candidate was mentioned to have claimed that his UTME scores from 2019 until 2021 had been “altered” by the board, thereby denying him the chance to check his desired course — Medication.

On Friday, the candidate, his father and lawyer travelled to Abuja from Enugu State following an invite by the administration of the board led by Oloyede.

Initially, the boy was given couple of minutes to “come clear” in a closed session along with his father and attorneys concerning the outcomes he was parading however insisted that his unique rating from the examination was 380.

After forwards and backwards, the board tendered proof to counter the declare by John and his authorized consultant.

On the Friday assembly, documentary proof tendered by the board confirmed that John truly scored 265 and never the 380 he had claimed.

Oloyede accused the candidate of alteration, including that he can be handed over to the police for investigation and subsequently prosecuted.

The registrar mentioned John was amongst 11 different candidates who allegedly solid their outcomes that the board would prosecute.

He mentioned the unique outcome issued to him could be withdrawn pending investigation.

Oloyede mentioned, “We’ve got 11 of them who tampered with their outcomes. Two of them are already being prosecuted. The remaining ones we’re going to withdraw their outcomes and prosecute them. The principle objective is to sanitise the system, together with our personal workers.

“There was by no means any communication of 380 with this boy. As a result of this boy has accused JAMB, we’re going to withhold his outcome till the investigation is concluded. We’re going to request that our interactions with him be subjected to the general public.”

His lawyer, Ikeazor, appealed to the board to as a substitute give room for additional investigation.

“I cannot stand in opposition to investigation. Let there be investigation however what I cannot conform to is to prejudge him,” he mentioned.

Earlier, John had mentioned, “The outcome I’ve been receiving isn’t the outcome I’m entitled to. I wrote the primary JAMB in 2019.

“The primary time, they despatched 328 and later, I noticed 278 once I checked it. I printed it. I couldn’t meet up for admission that 12 months. I wished to check Medication and Surgical procedure on the College of Ibadan.

“In 2020, the identical factor occurred. I scored 343, however by the point I went to the portal to print, I noticed 306. I used the 306 and it gave me admission in UI. However as a result of I didn’t have Additional Arithmetic, I needed to forfeit it.

“I made a decision to go away Medication and Surgical procedure for them in 2021 so I picked Petroleum Engineering. In 2021, JAMB issued me two outcomes. I noticed 380 the primary time I checked after which the second time, I noticed 265.”

However the board’s Public Relations Officer, Fabian Benjamin, claimed that the candidate confessed to the crime.

He mentioned, “The candidate who was paraded for forging the Board’s outcome has confessed after the Board found that he saved his sister’s quantity on his telephone as 55019 and used the telephone to ship the faux outcome to his telephone.

“When he sends such outcomes, they arrive as 55019.

“He pleaded for mercy that he had to do this when the outcome he bought was lower than what might give him his desired programme.”