The FCT Police Command has arrested a 19-year-old 2021 UTME candidate, Chinedu Ifesinachi John, after the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) proved that he forged a result slip claiming he scored 380 instead of his actual score of 265.
How the ₦1 Billion Lawsuit Exposed the Forgery
- aiming to study Medicine, the candidate convinced his father, Mr. John Ifenkpam, that JAMB had altered his June 2021 UTME score from 380 down to 265 (as well as his 2019 and 2020 scores).
- His father hired an Enugu-based lawyer, Ikeazor Akaraiwe, who filed a lawsuit demanding ₦1 billion in damages for emotional trauma and asking that the candidate be allowed to retake the exam.
- When JAMB invited the candidate, his father, and their lawyer to its National Headquarters in Abuja on Friday, 3rd September 2021, forensic server logs proved beyond doubt that the candidate genuinely scored 265 and had digitally forged the 380 result slip to deceive his parents.
- JAMB subsequently withdrew his 265 result pending investigation and handed him over—alongside 11 other candidates caught forging 2021 UTME results—to the police for prosecution.
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