Meanwhile, the board said it had released the results of 3, 736 who have been cleared of any infraction base on the used biometrics for the examinations that held between April 11- 17 with about 1.8 million registered candidates.
He also continues by saying” UTME is a computer-based standardized examination and before the examination, there was registration of candidates’ using there 10 fingers which were captured and used as clearance to admit them into the examination hall for prospective undergraduates to gain admission into tertiary institutions in Nigeria.
The Biometrics Verification Machine was introduced by the board in an attempt to get rid of the numerous forms of examination malpractice that was so trending for the past years and which was discovered that some candidates, on getting to exam centres, were disqualified because the biometric verification was unable to capture their fingers properly.
A candidate, Olusolanle Tolulope, from Ekiti, narrated how the biometric refused to capture her finger during the verification process which disqualified her from writing,.Olusolanle Tolulope begging JAMB to reschedule the exams for them., leading to her inability to write the exams.
According to her: “I registered for the exam at FUOYE ICT and when I got to the centre, I couldn’t resolve my biometric verification issue that days when my fingerprints and my information didn’t appear on the system. So, I was unable to write the exam.
“We were told to fill a form that was presented to us that day and since then we haven’t gotten a response. We even went to their office in Ekiti, submitted our slip and they told us they will call us and since then they haven’t done anything about it.”
She stated the development has automatically disqualified her from gaining admission for FUOYE Pre-Degree programme after she expended a lot of money.
Another affected candidate whose name is Okeeya Iyanuoluwa Michael, from Itapa-Ekiti, also shared how he was unable to write the exams which On that fateful day when we went for the exam at Ijero-Ekiti, the biometric failed. About three of their candidates were affected, including me.
“We tried doing it again but it kept on failing. So, we were asked to fill a form and go home that they will call us.“
He went on: “Since then we filled the form and we haven’t seen any call. I contacted those at the JAMB office but they said they have called all those affected and I don’t know why I was not called. I sent a message to jamb e-mail and they haven’t replied.
“My hope of gaining admission this year is gone. The Federal Government should contact JAMB so they will do the exam for us”.
Ogedengbe Ifeoluwa Solomon, an affected student from Ibadan, also expressed sadness over his inability to sit for the exams.
Mother of an affected candidate from Lagos, Mrs Okeeya, said: “My child registered for the examination at an accredited centre and when she called me she was unable to do the exam, I felt bad and Since then there has been no solution if she is unable to write the examination that means the money we paid for pre-degree will waste.”
She pleaded with JAMB and the government to intervene and remedy the situation.
When the Board’s Head of Media and Publicity, Dr Fabian Benjamin was contacted, ruled out the possibility of rescheduling examinations for the affected candidates. He stated there was no how the fingerprint verification could have failed to because biometrics, he said, was designed to curb multiple registrations and malpractices among candidates.
“there is rules that were stipulated governing Jamb utme. We introduce that grand norm because it was one of the easiest platforms for people to cheat.
“What some of these candidates do is to register a multiple time and create this incidence of biometrics challenges and call for rescheduling of examinations, it would have been written previously with this complained to us then and not now when you reschedule them at the end they do another examination so is not done that way”
Dr Fabian Benjamin concluded by saying” if 10 candidates out of this number for one reason or the other which we believe is not from us could not be verified, we will not allow them to sit for the exam. Because we can’t break our rule”
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My name is Shonowo AbdulAzeez. Am from ijebu ode ogun state. I was about to write my jamb exam on the 16th of March. But unfortunately for me I get to exam center early because I was about to have my exam by 07:00am. I got there to do my biometric fingers print but it couldn’t be screen. To my surprise the supervisor doing the biometric fingers print said that my finger could not be verified . We tried it so many times it couldn’t, they later called the help line which is jamb offices at Abuja they told them what happened. Later the help line told them that they should reregister the candidate again and they are going to give the candidate a call.please Nigeria citizen am in a sorrowful situation since then.Help us beg jamb offices so that they could consider us am begging all Nigeria citizens help us talk to jamb . Thanks
Ok No problem, we promise to help you get the issue to jamb office at Abuja on this matter…If actually what you said is correct.