Jamb nuisance as of yesterday ,,may 13th 2017. Day 1

Candidates for the 2017 Joint Admissions and Matriculation
Board, JAMB, examination that began yesterday poured out their
frustration over what they described as poor preparation by
JAMB as most centres visited started late and had network failure
among other issues.

Akinyemi said she felt sad that JAMB could not live up to its
promise. Her words, “ I was here before 6:30 am because I was
among the first batch to write by 7am. However, the exam did
not start until 11:30. This was after we had shouted at JAMB
officials who were still bringing computers into the hall as at
9am”.
The same scenario was witnessed at Career Centre, Iwaya at
Sabo/ Bariga area of Lagos where candidates slated to begin the
exam at 1:30 pm stood under the sun as at 1pm, even as those
who had already written theirs came out of the hall with
complaints that only one engineer was on ground to battle the
issue of system breakdown or network failure.

JAMB’s reaction

One of the JAMB officials approached told our reporter that
hitches were expected but promised that by next Saturday all the
issues raised would have been addressed.
“ Today, we expected little challenges; that’s why only two sets
were writing. By next week, all the hitches would have been
settled and we will have three sets writing. These include the
first batch of 7am, second batch, 11 am and the last one that will
be by 1:30 pm. Today, only two batches wrote the exam”.
Asked how many candidates were inside the examination hall, he
replied: “Why are you concerned about the number of
candidates? For the delay, it is normal because today is the
beginning of JAMB. “
For candidates who claimed JAMB posted them to far away
states, JAMB spokesperson, Dr Fabian Benjamin, while speaking
with Sunday Vanguard, said every candidate chose the town of
examination, while JAMB chose the examination centre. “JAMB
did not choose examination centre for any candidate, each
candidate made the choice. What we did was to choose the
examination centre,” he explained.
However, Sunday Vanguard findings revealed that candidates,
who got posted to far distance either registered late or had the
centres they initially wanted full.