The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has directed all Computer-Based Test centre owners to arrest any parent, who is found near any of their facilities during the 2024 UTME exercise.
JAMB said all arrangements have been concluded for the conduct of the 2024 UTME, which will be held in over 700 CBT centres across the nation.
The directive was issued at the final briefing of the Computer-Based Test Centre owners, which was held virtually.
The board said the directive became necessary following the intrusive disposition of some parents during the Board’s previous exercises.
JAMB Registrar, Professor Is-haq Oloyede, said any parent, who disobeys this order, would not only be arrested but his ward would also be disqualified from sitting the examination.
He said the measure is necessary as it has been discovered over time that many intruding parents are facilitators of examination infractions while others have, by their actions, disrupted the Board’s examinations in the past.
Consequently, the Registrar disclosed that the Board has directed security operatives to work with the centres to apprehend any meddlesome parent, who comes near the centres.
The board also advised candidates to jealously guard their details, e-mail address, as well as their registration and phone numbers.
Furthermore, Oloyede appealed to centre owners to consider the assignment as a national engagement and not as a purely profit venture. He urged them to expose the bad eggs among them.
The Registrar informed the participants that the Board had deployed state-of-the-art technologies to check all manners of infractions, collaborations and other unsavoury acts that are at variance with its code of operations.