The JAMB boss added that some miscreants also disguise as parents to infiltrate the centres and perpetrate all forms of infractions.
By Jeffrey Agbo
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has directed all Computer-Based Test (CBT) centre owners to get any parent found near their facilities during the 2024 UTME arrested.
Spokesperson of JAMB, Fabian Benjamin, made this known in a statement on Thursday.
The statement said the directive became necessary following the intrusive disposition of some parents during previous exercises.
The statement quoted JAMB Registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, as saying that parents who disobey the order would not only be arrested but their wards would also be disqualified from taking the examination.
“The measure is necessary as it had been discovered over time that many of these intruding parents are facilitators of examination infractions while others have, by their actions, disrupted the board’s examinations in the past,” he said.
The JAMB boss added that some miscreants also disguise as parents to infiltrate the centres and perpetrate all forms of infractions.
Consequently, the registrar urged security operatives to work with the centres to apprehend any meddlesome parent who come near the centres.
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He said that going by the extant national policy on education, a candidate for the examination must have attained the age of 17.
“Therefore, it is evident that these parents had not allowed their wards to pass through the classes as defined in the document, hence, the determination to follow their wards to the examination venue with the aim of compromising examination officials.
“At any rate, it is clear to any discerning observer that these parents deserve to be sanctioned as they had obviously ‘smuggled’ underage children into the ranks of those scheduled to sit the examination.
“The Board also availed itself of the opportunity provided by the meeting to advise candidates to jealously guard their personal details, e-mail address, as well as their registration and phone numbers.
“This advice is issued against the backdrop of some candidates, who might be enticed into patronising any of those fraudulent websites out there,” he said.
Oloyede further said that all arrangements had been concluded for the conduct of the 2024 UTME which would be held in over 700 CBT centres across the nation.
