UTME Fraud: 80% of infractions are caused by parents  —  JAMB Committee

Jake Epelle, the Chairman of JAMB Special Committee connected Examination Infractions, has revealed that parents relationship for 80 percent of fraudulent practices recorded successful the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).

The committee had earlier presented its study successful Abuja connected Monday to JAMB Registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede.

According to Epelle, parents, tutorial centres, schools, and adjacent immoderate Computer-Based Test (CBT) operators were complicit successful undermining the integrity of the examination.

Speaking connected Channels Television’s Politics Today hours aft the presumption of the report, the president of the committee said, “Eighty per cent of these infractions are caused by parents who privation to springiness marks to their children that they don’t deserve.”

Epelle disclosed that the committee uncovered 4,251 cases of “finger blending” and 190 instances of artificial intelligence-assisted impersonation done representation morphing.

He added that 1,878 mendacious disablement claims, forged credentials, aggregate National Identification Number (NIN) registrations, and collusion betwixt candidates and syndicates were besides uncovered.

He warned that the emergence of technology-enabled malpractices is creating caller challenges.

“This is the property of AI and what is going connected is that JAMB rolls retired a state-of-the-art technology; determination are radical down the country and these are astute young Nigerians. The strategy is robust, but determination is simply a accordant conspiracy to undermine the system,” helium explained.

He stressed the request for homegrown solutions to code the menace.

“Every exertion has its ain glitches, and that is wherefore I americium a proponent of adaptive technology. We request a exertion that is adapted wrong our environment, that speaks to issues that we are going through,” helium added.

Epelle, however, assured that the JAMB Registrar, Prof. Oloyede, “will not condone immoderate enactment that volition successful immoderate mode springiness impetus to immoderate signifier of introspection malpractices.”

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