Registrar, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, Prof. Is-haq TOloyede, has warned CBT centres against collecting candidates’ passwords, or suggesting what should be their passwords at the point of registration. Similarly, the Registrar also frowned at CBT centres retaining forms filled by candidates which contain vital data of candidates. He stated that the centres are obligated to return such forms to candidates after filling and not retain them.
He said, “candidates are to create their passwords, keep them secret as they are not to be disclosed to anybody, not even their parents.” Continuing, the Registrar explained that such vital data, if exposed to third parties, could compromise their records as well as jeopardise their future academic aspirations.
Oloyede, according to the latest edition of JAMBulletin spoke while he was on a routine inspection of some UTME Registration centres in Kwara State, where he discovered that some of the centres were suggesting to candidates what should be their passwords.
Some even keep registers where candidates records are taken and kept. This, according to the JAMB Registrar, is not allowed and should be stopped forthwith. Prof. Oloyede maintained that candidates also had the right to change their passwords to ensure absolute confidentiality after it had been discovered that such had been exposed to other individuals.
He therefore advised candidates, in their own interest, to ensure the sanctity of their passwords as any unauthorised access to them could lead to unpalatable consequencies.
In another development, no fewer than 44 Computer-Based Test N(CBT) centre owners and operators, who engaged in registration Cyber infractions in the ongoing 2020 UTME/DE, have been handed over to security agencies by JAMB. The CBT centre owners were handed over to security operatives on Wednesday, 29 January 2020, after a meeting that also had in attendance, representatives of security agencies, and which was held at the National Headquarters of the Board in Bwari, Abuja.
Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, told the centre owners who were accompanied by their centre officials that the Board had established a prima facie case against them, pointing out that some affected centres had submitted to the Board fictitious names and fake National Identification Numbers (NIN) purporting to be of their officers billed to partake in the UTME Registration.