A woman who claims to be a ‘prophetess’ has admitted to asking her son to impersonate his brother in the ongoing Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), organised by the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB).
According to officials of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) who apprehended the suspected impersonator on Thursday, the alleged offender was arrested at Air Mas Computer Centre, Madalla, Niger State.
Mother and children were chastised by Ishaq Oloyede, Registrar of JAMB, but their names were not given.
Oloyede said, “Parents need to disassociate themselves from this type of shameful attitude.
“The woman should have just said she is a mother and not that she is a prophetess; you are doing something shameful, do not bring God into it at all.
Oloyed also expressed reservations about those hiding behind religion to commit crimes, including examination malpractice.
“One said he is a Catholic priest; there’s another one from Abia and now, this mother said she’s a prophetess; people in Nigeria just use religion to exploit others.
“Their intentions are to help people not knowing that we now have a device that monitors every computer system in every centre, via a code,” he said.
He reiterated that there would be no rescheduling of the 2018 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Exam (UTME) for any student that missed the examination unlike last year.