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Two Imposters Arrested in Yabatech JAMB CBT
centre on Saturday
Saturday’s Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board,
JAMB organised Unified Tertiary Matriculation
Examination, UTME did not go without incident as
two persons suspected to be impostors were arrested
by the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps,
NSCDC at the Yaba College of Technology,
YABATECH venue of the Computer Based Test, CBT.
A JAMB official, Mrs Ebere Okeke, who spoke with
reporters said that one of the suspects presented
himself as a candidate at the centre but that his
thumb print and picture did not correspond with the
information on JAMB registration data.
“The original candidate is Rasaq Sheu with
registration number 47288350GJ and examination
number C07501029, while the impersonator is Salako
Olatunji, a 20-year-old tutor in a private school in
Ogun.
“We looked at the picture on our verification system
and the person standing before us and we discovered
that he was trying to impersonate.”
Okeke, who is an Assistant Director in JAMB, said
that the original owner of the examination stood
somewhere watching the impersonator but when
problem started he turned himself in for questioning.
One of the suspects, Olatunji, confessed that he was
assisting his friend to gain admission into the
university because he gave him 160 dollars to pay for
his U.S. Visa fee.
centre on Saturday
Saturday’s Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board,
JAMB organised Unified Tertiary Matriculation
Examination, UTME did not go without incident as
two persons suspected to be impostors were arrested
by the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps,
NSCDC at the Yaba College of Technology,
YABATECH venue of the Computer Based Test, CBT.
A JAMB official, Mrs Ebere Okeke, who spoke with
reporters said that one of the suspects presented
himself as a candidate at the centre but that his
thumb print and picture did not correspond with the
information on JAMB registration data.
“The original candidate is Rasaq Sheu with
registration number 47288350GJ and examination
number C07501029, while the impersonator is Salako
Olatunji, a 20-year-old tutor in a private school in
Ogun.
“We looked at the picture on our verification system
and the person standing before us and we discovered
that he was trying to impersonate.”
Okeke, who is an Assistant Director in JAMB, said
that the original owner of the examination stood
somewhere watching the impersonator but when
problem started he turned himself in for questioning.
One of the suspects, Olatunji, confessed that he was
assisting his friend to gain admission into the
university because he gave him 160 dollars to pay for
his U.S. Visa fee.
