The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has arrested a 19 year old female candidate, Rejoice Mordi, for allegedly falsifying her 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination score from 164 to 264.
Mordi was arrested in Abuja on Tuesday following an invitation by the board to its headquarters in Bwari.
The father of the teenager, Frank Emordi, had petitioned the board for issuing her daughter two separate results from the same examination.
The board recalled that upon receipt of the complaint, it invited the candidate to appear before it.
JAMB’s Head of Information, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, stated this in a statement yesterday in Abuja.
Benjamin said the candidate confessed before the board that she got the fake UTME result from an agent, identified simply as Iyanu, through a WhatsApp message and she wanted to see that it was changed on her UTME portal.
According to Benjamin, the candidate from Delta State explained that she met the agent who collected her registration number and those of three other candidates.
He added that the candidate had been handed over to security agents for further interrogation aimed at revealing her collaborators.