The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has further cleared and released the results of 15,490 candidates withheld during the just concluded 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. Dr Fabian Benjamin, Spokesman of the Board, in a statement on Monday in Abuja said JAMB had withheld some results, during the release of the 2019 UTME result on Saturday, 11th May, 2019, to further probe the identity and involvement of some candidates who were suspected of being involved in one examination infraction or another.

He explained that the release followed the expert review of the cases of this category of candidates who were requested to upload certain credentials for scrutiny. He added that at the conclusion of the review exercise, this category of candidates were further classified into five groups as follows; those who have sufficiently proved their innocence; those with inconclusive evidence of culpability and were given the benefit of the doubt because of the guiding principles of the Board that it is better for many criminals to go free than to punish one innocent candidate.

“Therefore, the results of categories (i)and (ii) were part of the 15,490  released on Saturday, 8th June 2019. They are to send RESULT to 55019 for their result.

“Those whose upload of evidence necessitated further interrogation.  They have been notified and invited (through a phone call, their profile, text message and email) to designated centres across the country for further clarification of the evidence against them.

“It is in their interest to attend otherwise the evidence will be taken as conclusive.

“Those whose culpability has been firmly established thus necessitating the cancellation of their results. A total of additional 321 results were therefore conclusively cancelled and the candidates are being notified.

“Those who did not heed the advice to upload evidence of their identity vis-a-vis the other impersonators and there are incontrovertible evidence of their culpability.  They also have their results cancelled along with category (iv) above. Furthermore, four additional CBT centres were found culpable and were also delisted,” JAMB said.