Registrar and Chief Executive of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board(JAMB), Prof. ’Dibu Ojerinde, on Wednesday asked the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission(EFCC) to assist the agency in curbing fraudulent practices plaguing the conduct of public examinations in the country.
He also said JAMB will soon introduce e-testing as part of steps to check examination fraud.
Ojerinde, who made the appeal in Abuja during a courtesy call on the EFCC chairman, Mr. Ibrahim Lamorde, said JAMB is worried about increasing examination malpractice in the country.
He disclosed that in the last Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, two individuals, who designed bathroom slippers that accommodated handsets to receive answers from outside, were arrested.
The slippers, he said, were designed specially to cheat during the examinations.
A statement by the Acting Head of Media and Publicity, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren, quoted Ojerinde as saying:
“There is this particular case of a woman in Ikirun, Osun State. During the examination, a search was conducted on her and the scanner gave indication that there were foreign metal object in her body.
“All entreaties to her to bring out what was on her failed until a woman supervisor had to take her to a closet and undress her only to discover that a handset was prepared just like a pad in her private part. It was that bad. If we had not used the scanner, we couldn’t have detected it. Even at that, I am sure there were people that still went away with it.
“We realized that we in JAMB don’t have this special Eagle Eye to detect some of these things. We have come to solicit for your assistance on how we can work together to exterminate this problem.”
He unfolded plans to put in place e-testing method to replace the manual examination being conducted by the Board.
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