JAMB captures another candidate for upgrading score from 162 to 206
THE Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board apprehended another UTME applicant, Cletus Kokowa, for upgrading his rating from 162 to 206 with the assistance of a fraudster.
Following that of Adah Eche who was nabbed last month for similar crime, Kokowa became the second applicant apprehended by the board.
Kokowa admitted to being asked to pay N10,000 for the upgrade before the board leadership on Thursday.
The committee informed journalists that a couple of weeks earlier the applicant, with Bayelsa State Registration Number 95329290ED, contacted the syndicate through a WhatsApp group where he was told he could upgrade his score from 162.
It clarified that fraudsters subsequently sent Kokowa a fake result screen shot, saying his score was 206 now.
However, when the outcome on the JAMB site stayed unchanged, Kokowa's dad, Garen Kokowa, submitted a complaint letter to the board requesting that his son's results be corrected.
In the complaint letter addressed to the JAMB Registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, the dad of the suspect wrote, "Your failure to respond quickly to the problem has led to the forfeiture of my son's entry chance to his Nigerian Defense Academy.
"Nevertheless, I am anxious for your indulgence to rectify the outcome rapidly in an affirmative manner in order to allow him to have a strong stand for his second choice of establishment." The board then invited Kokowa to arrive with the two outcomes as evidence, after which he admitted that he had hired a syndicate on Thursday.
His uncle, an officer of the military who refused to give his name, accompanied Kokowa to the headquarters of the JAMB.
The boy was then handed over to the officers of the NSCDC.
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