Some candidates, who registered for the last Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, were posted to centres outside their states. GRACE EDEMA writes about the loss, pain and demoralising experi...
Some candidates, who registered for the last Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, were posted to centres outside their states. GRACE EDEMA writes about the loss, pain and demoralising experience most of the candidates suffered in order to sit the examination
A mother, Kemi Adetayo, related on the thread that her child was posted to Lafiagi, a distance of 104 kilometres to Ilorin, Kwara State. “I only used her as a case study. I know of many others in similar predicaments and the number of students affected is on the high side. I also know of five students from Ibadan, who were posted to Sokoto State. The five of them won’t be sitting the exams. This also happened last year but no one complained,” she said.
Some observers said such candidates would get discouraged and completely lose interest in the pursuit of education by going on the streets and get inscribed in their hearts that popular local parlance, ‘Education na scam’. Igwe maintained that these were some of the reasons parents would not allow their children to travel long distances to take the UTME, especially to locations where they do not know anyone who could help keep an eye on their children. “Thank God that Rukayat’s parents are financially capable to register her for the JUPEB.
The Chairman, Parents’ Forum, Babs Fafunwa Senior Secondary School, Ojodu, Mr Azeez Wahab, condemned JAMB for the indiscriminate postings. He stated, “Based on our past experience, we realised that the narrower the examination towns are, the easier it was for those who registered candidates in teams and prearrange their centre allocation.
He narrated that two years ago, his son registered late for the UTME and chose the Ikorodu CBT centre. However, he was posted to Iseyin in Oyo State to sit the examination. “These are reasons to relocate some candidates if any of these is correct, then posting such candidates far away from their states of residence, being teenagers, is irrational, unexpected and unacceptable.”Ajani advised that early registration and accreditation of more CBT centres would prevent unorganised postings.
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