A yet-to-be-identified father has been arrested for writing the ongoing 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) for his son.

The registrar of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Professor Ishaq Oloyede, made this known while inspecting Computer Based Test (CBT) centres in Kaduna state on Wednesday, April 24.

Oloyede frowned at examination cheaters and impersonators while describing the action of the arrested father as “uncalled for.”

Oloyede lamented the kind of parenting children are exposed to in this generation.

According to Benue Newspoint, the JAMB boss said the examination was able to arrest the man because the board was ahead of the impersonators. “The important thing is that we are ahead of the impersonators, we have arrested a father writing examinations for his son, the kind of parenting in this generation is uncalled for, I wonder what the father will tell the son if they are locked up in the same cell. “We now have the facilities to check all sorts of impersonation and other malpractices.”

Oloyede, however, thanked parents for their support and for adhering to JAMB’s instructions and guidelines, The Guardian reports.

“There is no report this year of parents intruding, except one state. In that state, they felt since the first session failed, their children should not continue with the second or other sessions.”

The examination body, however, said UTME candidates who missed the exam due to an accident or illness can be rescheduled.