UTME 2019: ‘Results out soon but I don’t know when,’ JAMB Registrar says

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has disclosed that delay in the release of the results for the 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) owes largely to the biometric verification of the 1.8 candidates who sat for the exam.

The board also said the verification exercise had already been carried out in 31 of the 36 States of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

JAMB Registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, confirmed this while speaking to reporters in Abuja on Sunday.

He said the board was cross-checking everything pertaining to the conduct of the examination, including fingerprints of candidates.

Prof. Oloyede, who did not list the states the board has so far verified the fingerprints of candidates, said: “We are cross-checking everything, including fingers. If you know that you have about 1.8 candidates multiplied by ten that is the finger we are talking about.

“If you are very close to National Identity Card Management Commission (NIMC¬), ask them what it takes to analyse finger prints in terms of period.

“We are combining 1.8 million ten fingers with one another to be sure that we identify people who combine fingers and so on. That is where we are now.

“We have done all other and now we have about six states to go. As I speak with you I am at a retreat with those who are doing it. We have about six states to go. We have done 31 states and six states are still not completed now.”

On when the board would release the result of the UTME, the registrar said: “I don’t know but it will be very soon. As soon as we complete what we are doing.”

The registrar denied reports that the board may cancel half of the results of states found to have been involved in malpractice during the examination.

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He said: “There is no problem at all but everything must be done thoroughly and that is what we are doing. There is no problem. All the rumour about problem is a lie and I would not tell a whole nation what is not true. I can’t put my integrity on line. There is no problem at all.

“We are doing what we set to do and it is a scientific thing and there is no way I can expedite it beyond this. It is taking human and material resources but we must do it. Somebody must standup against this rot. That’s all.”

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