Millions of JAMB candidates protest Massively !!
Computer-Based Test (CBT) of University
Matriculation Examinations (UME) have staged a
protest in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
The protest, which started from the D/Line office of
the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB)
was over delay and non-collection of the e-slip
examination date and centre.
The printout of the e-slip examination dates and
centres, which was fixed for February 21, was
postponed to March 2.
The angry candidates accused JAMB of calling on the
police, who fired teargas canisters at them on
Monday, to disperse them from the JAMB office
without any act of provocation. They urged the Board
to open up its website to enable them print out their
examination dates or postpone the examination.
Some candidates were seen hanging around the
JAMB office as no official of the board was in sight.
One of the candidates, Blessing, expressed
dissatisfaction over the handling of their matters by
JAMB officials.
"We have been here since Monday till today and we
have been here since morning. They told us to come
and, here we are, but they are nowhere to be found,''
she said.
According to her, failure to get the e-slip would deny
the candidates the opportunity to sit for the
examination next week.
Addressing the angry candidates, a senior police
officer, H. O. Akpoguma, urged them to be calm and
come back today (Friday) for their e-slip printouts.
"We are in touch with them (JAMB officials), they are
printing out all of them. Don't fret, come back
tomorrow by 7am," Akpoguma told them.
On Wednesday, the distraught JAMB candidates had
attacked the JAMB office with pebbles, destroying
some property over failure to receive their e-slips.
Also, they alleged that JAMB officials collected
between N500 and N1,000 from them for issuance of
e-slip examination dates and centres.
Meanwhile, when Daily Sun visited the JAMB office at
D/Line, Port Harcourt yesterday, the office was under
lock and key, with a police patrol van positioned near
the premises.
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