BREAKING: We spent N20m to hack into JAMB registration portal – Suspects confess

It has been reported that Some suspects who were allegedly
caught while perpetrating certain
irregularities in the ongoing registration
for the 2017 Unified Tertiary
Matriculation Examinations confessed to spending over
N20m to construct a radio platform
with which they hacked into JAMB’s
registration portal.
It was previously reported that the
Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps
arrested no less than five individuals
who had deployed fake biometric
capturing machines to register
applicants.

Punch reports that the Spokesperson of
the Joint Admissions and Matriculation
Board, Dr Fabian Benjamin, in a
statement issued in Abuja on Saturday
April 22, said: “These registration
thieves deployed fake biometric capturing
mechanisms and super-imposed
registration slips just to satisfy the
curiosity of innocent candidates that
their registration was successful.
JAMB registrar, Prof Ishaq Oloyede
“And on the day of examination, such
candidates’ data would either be edited,
or not found on the JAMB data base.
“Such candidates would not be verified
during the examination proper.”
It was also gathered that Benjamin
disclosed that the fraudsters were
arrested variously in Oyo, Ogun and
Maiduguri by officers and men of the
NSCDC and brought to Abuja.
During their interrogations in Abuja,
Benjamin said, the suspects gave
startling revelations of how they
conducted their operations.

“While being paraded in the presence of
the Commandant-General of NSCDC,
Abdullahi Gana Mohamadu, the
fraudsters confessed to numerous
registration infractions that JAMB
couldn’t imagine,” Benjamin said.