Candidates seeking to write the 2015/16 Computer-Based Test (CBT) of University Matriculation Examinations (UME) have staged a protest in Port Harcourt.
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.
According to Daily Sun, 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.
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