JAMB Malpractice lowest in the North. Why?

- Reuben Abati

"We considered the report on every affected centre on a case-by-case basis, with each Chief Examiner responding to further enquiries, and at the end, the meeting resolved that 48 centres involved in extortion and malpratices should be delisted, while 24 centres should be suspended for a year. The statistics on 2017 UTME malpractice is noteworthy. Most of the affected states are from the South East and South South as follows:

Abia (381 cases),
Imo (193),
Anambra (152),
Enugu (114),
Cross River (78),
Ebonyi (48),
Akwa Ibom (44)

States with the lowest number of cases are from the North viz:

Kebbi (1),
Kaduna (16),
Kano (29)
Katsina (2),
Kogi (7)
Sokoto (25),
Taraba (4),
Zamfara (1).
Yobe (0)
Jigawa (0)

Abati is asking: "Could it be then that students and CBT operators in the North are more honest than their Southern counterparts, or perhaps less computer savvy? Does the 2017 UTME say anything about national character?"

My Take:

The disparity in statistics will be the same when you consider other crimes and wider in international crime especially. Abati has more homework to do.

Not much to celebrate, anyway, for the North has a good measure of criminals. But statistics like these tell one fact: The North is not the most criminal but the most marginalized in crime.

Because Lugard sold the south to the north. simple as abc.

Lwkm... No be one of those centers them use black clothe cover cctv.