JAMB registrar, professor ishaq Oloyede while parading the masterminds of the fraud before officials of the Nigeria Security and civil defence corps, NSCDC and the Nigeria police, at the board's headquaters in Abuja, also confirmed that four persons involved in extortion and other crimes have been convicted by the court
The Registrar said centres affected centres are mostly in states like Akwa Ibom, Anambra, Bayelsa, Delta, Katsina, Kwara, Lagos, Nasarawa, Ondo, Oyo and Rivers.
Other states with minor cases and technical challenges, which have only been asked to suspend registration for the moment are located in Adamawa, Enugu, Zamfara, Gonbe, Niger and Osun states
JAMB had accused some commercial banks of conniving with Computer-based Test centre operators to defraud unsuspecting candidates by charging them above the specified registration fees of N4,700
JAMB reminded CBT Centre operators that alleged irregularities by officials of the National Identity Management Commission that led to the suspension of the use of the National Identity Number, NIN, which it had declared as mandatory for registration by all intending candidates in the 2020 UTME
Meanwhile, the Head of JAMB's Public Affairs , Fabian Benjamin has confirmed the conviction to three years imprison of four persons in Nasarawa state, north central Nigeria.
Benjamin said the accused were convicted on the January 27, 2020, by a Magistrate Court in Lafia, Nasarawa State, where they pleaded guilty to the offence.
He said the four convicted are Ujaku Emem Samuel, who claimed to be a pastor and his wife, Peace Emem Samuel. Others are Opulani Joseph Sunupe and Umar Musa Sa’adu
SOURCE: Ait.live