Court jails man six months for impersonation committed in 2019 UTME

A magistrate court in Abuja has sent a Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) candidate to jail.

The candidate, identified as Jide Josiah Jisos, is facing a six-month sentence for impersonation committed during 2019 UTME.

Folashade Oyekan, the court justice, convicted Jisos after she found him guilty of a one-count charge of impersonation.

The officials of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) arrested Jisos while monitoring the 2019 UTME at Brix Academy in Abuja.

During the exam, Jisos presented himself as a representative of a non-governmental organization (NGO) that came to oversee the examination.

However, Jisos was arrested and handed over to security officials for investigation after being discovered to be an impersonator.

He was busted after he could not justify his claims during the questioning by the leader of the monitoring team in the hall.

During interrogation, he confessed that he was not affiliated with any NGO and was in the examination hall to assist his daughter in taking the 2019 UTME.

After being found guilty of impersonation, Jisos was sentenced to six months in prison with an option of a N100,000 fine.