EXTORTION OF CANDIDATES: JAMB CAUTIONS CYBER CAFÉ OPERATORS

EXTORTION OF CANDIDATES: JAMB CAUTIONS CYBER CAFÉ OPERATORS

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board , on Wednesday, cautioned private cybercafe operators against extortion of prospective candidates who want to upload their results on the board ’ s website .

The Head of Media of the board , Dr Fabian Benjamin , gave the caution in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja .
Benjamin said that the caution became necessary following several complaints made to the board by the victims , on fraudulent activities by some private café operators .

He said the candidates complained of high amount of money they were being charged by such operators to upload their WAEC results on JAMB website .
“ Not only do they charge them high, they also convince candidates who had already uploaded their results on the site to do same again .

“ Candidates who have had their results uploaded at the point of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination registration need not do that again , except for those who registered with awaiting results .
“ Those are the ones allowed to upload now on our website .
“ This upload should not cost more than N 100 .

“ No cybercafé should charge more than this amount , however , if candidates can locate any of our Computer Based Test Centres, it is free to make the upload there , ” Benjamin said .
(NAN )