One man who claimed to be a professor, Mr Jide Jisus, has been
arrested as the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME)
for 2019 commenced across the country.
The spokesman for the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board
(JAMB), Fabian Benjamin, confirmed this in a statement forwarded to
Channels Television on Friday.
Jisus was apprehended over an allegation of examination
malpractice by the monitoring team of the JAMB Registrar on
Thursday at an institution in Jabi area of Abuja, the nation’s
capital.
“His (the suspect) identity was shrouded in dubious tales. He
claimed during interrogation that he was one of the professors
selected by the Board to oversee the conduct of the 2019 UTME,” the
statement said.
Benjamin disclosed further that Jisus claimed that he was
awarded a professorial position by Christian University, Isolo,
Lagos and that he had two professorial awards from “Becket”
University England and Freedom University.
The suspect also claimed to be an employee of “Anchor
Polytechnic, Kubwa, Abuja”, an institution JAMB said does not
exist.
Similarly, he said he was the president of the United Nigeria
Chaplin Institute of Peace Academy.
It was, however, discovered that the suspect had a daughter who
was taking the 2019 UTME in the same centre where he was
caught.
JAMB insisted that its operational guideline does not allow
unauthorised persons into the examination hall.
It added that the said professor was not one of those it
selected to monitor the conduct of the examination.