JAMB: 30-Year-Old Samuel Timothy Arrested For Impersonation In Niger State

As the conduct of the 2018 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, ends on Saturday, a primary school teacher, identified as Timothy Samson, has been arrested for impersonation.

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Mr Samuel Timothy, a 30 year old teacher, was arrested after the Eagle eyes of security personnel from the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, and some JAMB personnel noticed that he was not a real candidate of the examination.

He was said to have sneaked into the examination hall to write for his younger brother, Samson Samuel who according to him is indisposed following a sudden illness.

Timothy was paraded on Thursday by the officials of the NSCDC and JAMB at the headquarters of the tertiary institutions’ examination body at Bwari, Abuja.

According to Tafida, a JAMB Supervisor at the examination centre, Air Mass Computer Institute, in Madalla, Sakina Tafida, Niger State, Timothy had evaded screening strategies and sneaked into the exam hall.

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Tafida said: “We found out that the number of exam slips we collected after fingerprint screening was less than the number of candidates in the hall. He skipped fingerprint device and the photograph on the slip he gave us later was that of his brother, Samson Samuel,” she said.

The arrested teacher, according to Tafida, confessed to have impersonated his brother who was sick.