“Why I hired someone to write my son’s JAMB exam”- Mom Who Enabled Son’s Examination Malpractice Confesses
A 35-year-old mother identified as Mrs. Chika Okoye with her son, Samuel, and his friend, Dan Abah, have been arrested by the operatives of Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps in Nasarawa State for examination malpractice.
Abah was allegedly hired by Mrs Okoye to write the just-concluded Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, in the state, PUNCH reports.
They were paraded in Lafia yesterday by the NSCDC commandant in the state, Mohammed Gidado-Fari
Speaking with newsmen after her arrest, the sober mother revealed why she hired Abah to write her son’s matriculation exam.
“We couldn’t get admission for many years so I became frustrated; he was also frustrated and nobody is helping us.
I have other children who have graduated but for the past four years or more now, he (Samuel) has failed to pass the exams, so I became frustrated.
So, I asked his friend to help him to write the exams, I told him I will give him something but I know it is a very bad thing. Please, forgive me sir, I was so frustrated,” Chika pleaded.
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The state’s commandant who also spoke to newsmen, disclosed that Abah was caught writing the JAMB examination at the Command Secondary School Lafia over the weekend on contract, as it was gathered he was to be paid an unspecified amount of money after her son passed the examination.
Few weeks ago, JAMB Registrar Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, blasted parents who encourage their children to engage in examination malpractice.
Oloyede made the remark in Abuja at the Board’s Headquarter at Bwari when a suspect or impersonator who attempted to write the 2018 UTME, on behalf of his brother was being paraded by the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC.
It was also reported that the commandant also paraded a 32 year-old man, Mr. Obey Samuel for allegedly beating his mother until she fell into a coma “without any provocation” in Nasarawa state.
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However, Samuel denied the allegations that he beat his mother till she fell unconscious.
“I did not beat her but I know that when I come back from a night club at that time, I was drunk, I just locked her up in her room.”
Smh.