Nigerian Security and
Civil Defence Corp (NSCDC) personnel on Tuesday arrested two persons suspected
to be using a cell phone to commit malpractice during the on-going Unified
Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
Commandant of NSCDC in
FCT, Patrick Uba, announced the arrests to newsmen when he monitored the
examinations in Abuja.
Uba said that the
suspects were apprehended at Baptist Academy Centre, in Karu where one of the
suspects, called Joy, went into the examination centre with a cell phone, which
was among the banned items.
“She concealed the cell
phone in her panties, went into the hall undetected and while the exam was
going on, she brought it out to use.
“With the CCTV cameras
in the hall, live activities are being transmitted and members of JAMB
personnel and security on ground were able to detect what she was doing and
arrested her.
“At the point of
interrogation, she mentioned one Andrew, her accomplice, whom she said
introduced her to the act and was sending her supposed answers to the
questions, via the phone.
“They are both in our
custody, we would carry out further investigation and arrest other accomplices
if traced and they would be prosecuted in the court of law.”
Joy told newsmen that
her act was an accident, adding that she was caught before she could use the
phone.
“Other candidates were
also making use of other materials too, I wasn’t the only one, but I did not
report them, “she said.
Joy, who said she wanted
to study Business Administration in the university, added that she had written
the examinations more than five times without success.
Reacting to the
incident, JAMB’s Head of Media, Mr Fabian Benjamin, said that the candidate was
initially spotted from the surveillance camera at the JAMB headquarters in
Bwari.
Benjamin noted that all
centres conducting the examinations had surveillance cameras, used to monitor
every activity in the examination halls.
“When we saw what was
happening at Baptist Academy, we immediately dispatched a team to make the
arrest.
“This should serve as a
deterrent to others; there is no short cut to success, whatever you do at the
centre, you would be spotted, it is not business as usual.”
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