The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board have arrested a Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) candidate, Cletus Kokowa, for allegedly paying a fraudster to upgrade his JAMB score from 162 to 206.
The candidate, Cletus kokowa, claimed he paid N10,000 to a syndicate who promised to help him upgrade his score.
The syndicate later sent him a fake result showing his score has been changed to 206.
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The candidate, with registration number 95329290ED, from Bayelsa, went ahead to complain at the JAMB office regarding his result.
He confessed to have paid a syndicate to help him upgrade his score.
He said:
“Those guys sent a mail to me that they could help me to upgrade my score. I then sent them my Registration number and e-mail. When the results were out and I checked, they showed me 206. Then, one of them called me asking me to pay them the money”.
The boy was afterwards handed over to the NSCDC officers.
