The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has said no candidate of the 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, has more than one result.
This clarification was contained in the board’s weekly bulletin released on Sunday in Abuja.
The bulletin, quoting the Head, Media and Publications, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, said that candidates with more than one result were either fraudulent or victims of examination syndicates.
Benjamin said the board had evidence of some candidates who paid syndicates to ensure they gained high scores in the examination.
He explained: “The syndicates, realising that they could not deliver as promised, instead, came up with these forged results and sent same to candidates who believed them.
“These are the set of candidates claiming to have two results, that is, with the actual result as one of them.
“It is practically impossible to have two results because we do not send results to candidates, rather, candidates send ‘Results’ to 55019 and the result is subsequently transmitted to the respective candidates.”
According to Benjamin, the board has secured the UTME results with high security features that would make it impossible for any syndicate or fraudster to forge it.
One of such features, he explained was a unique bar code placed on each result to safeguard it.
The JAMB Head of Media and Publications warned candidates not to place themselves at the mercy of fraudsters and criminals out of desperation.
He noted that the board was not responsible for fixing a national cut-off mark for admission into higher institutions and as such, had not set any for the 2019/20 admission process.
According to him, a national cut-off mark would be decided at the JAMB Policy meeting of education shareholders and heads of institutions which would hold at Gbongan, Osun state, on Tuesday, June 11.
The meeting, he further explained would be chaired by a Ministry of Education official.
