UTME 2017: Why The Results Of Some Candidates Won’t Be Released – JAMB Says

Examination body, Joint Admission and
Matriculation Board on Thursday states that
the results of candidates identified in
footages of Close Circuit Television (CCTV) to
have indulged in unwholesome practices
during the just-concluded Unified Tertiary
Matriculation Examination (UTME) won't be
released.



Registar of JAMB, Ishaq Oloyede, who spoke
on Channels Television Sunrise Daily said the
agency had been busy in the past days
reviewing recorded footages of the
examination across the country, and that a
number of candidates had been marked
out for sanction.



Oloyede, was responding to a question by
one of the anchors of the programme on
why some candidates were yet to receive
their results despite promises by JAMB to
release outcomes within 24 hours.



The registrar said,

“ “Those who have not received (their
results) are qualified not to receive for now.


In all cases where there were no problems,
we released results of the examination
within 24 hours.



“But those who have not (received their
results), they may not be culpable but we
are investigating. Where we have reason to
doubt anything or where we have report of
anything that is not acceptable to us, we
have withheld the results.




“And we will keep on releasing them as we
clear them. For instance, this morning, we
released another 15,000 results.



But among
those who sat in that centre, we have
reasons, concrete evidence to say about
300 of them, their results will not be
released because we know they were not
in the hall where the examination took
place.



“We are comparing those who sat for the
examination, how long they sat in the hall,
and how some of them took excuses that
they were going to the toilet only to go to
what they called VIP…



“All this we are now able to track. And we
want to say that we will not hesitate to
sanction anybody no matter how highly
placed.”
”



Mr. Oloyede said the CCTV cameras deployed
at every Computer Based Test (CBT) centres
across the country helped JAMB to detect
and arrest unwholesome practices.