JAMB candidates protest cumbersome registration process
Prospective candidates for the Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board (JAMB) examination frustrated by the cumbersome registration process blocked a major road in Calabar on Wednesday morning in protest.
The prospective candidates who blocked off one lane of Marian Road just opposite the JAMB office urged that something be done about the registration process.
The situation led to diversion of traffic, resulting in unusual traffic jams in adjoining roads.
Policemen and other security operatives were sent to quell the situation. They managed to diffuse the tension and the process of registration continued.
One of the protesters who did not want to be named said, “To register, you first of all create a profile with JAMB with an email address. Then JAMB would send a confirmation to the email address and you now click on the link of that confirmation and it would send you to JAMB portal and from there, you create a profile, which you would print out and do a Remitta, which you would take to the bank to pay N700 for. You make this payment alongside the N5, 500 in the bank for the JAMB form. So the total is N6, 200. You now bring that Remitta back to JAMB Office for registration. You can see how crazy the crowd is here. It is the same thing when you go to the bank. The process is too cumbersome and stressful. We beg them to make it easier for us.
“For the bank to even sort out your pin is something else. I tried to almost two weeks ago and until now I have not been able to complete the process. We are paying cybercafé charges, transportation up and down and sundry charges here and there, and most times you would not even succeed for what you went for, it is a big problem for us and something should be done about it as soon as possible. I would advise that this kind of process is not continued during the next JAMB registration.
“Why don’t they just revert to how it was done before where you just buy your form, fill it and return or even if they want to change, they should rather make the process easier than the previous one instead of making life difficult for us.”
Source: The Nation Newspaper
The situation led to diversion of traffic, resulting in unusual traffic jams in adjoining roads.
Policemen and other security operatives were sent to quell the situation. They managed to diffuse the tension and the process of registration continued.
One of the protesters who did not want to be named said, “To register, you first of all create a profile with JAMB with an email address. Then JAMB would send a confirmation to the email address and you now click on the link of that confirmation and it would send you to JAMB portal and from there, you create a profile, which you would print out and do a Remitta, which you would take to the bank to pay N700 for. You make this payment alongside the N5, 500 in the bank for the JAMB form. So the total is N6, 200. You now bring that Remitta back to JAMB Office for registration. You can see how crazy the crowd is here. It is the same thing when you go to the bank. The process is too cumbersome and stressful. We beg them to make it easier for us.
“For the bank to even sort out your pin is something else. I tried to almost two weeks ago and until now I have not been able to complete the process. We are paying cybercafé charges, transportation up and down and sundry charges here and there, and most times you would not even succeed for what you went for, it is a big problem for us and something should be done about it as soon as possible. I would advise that this kind of process is not continued during the next JAMB registration.
“Why don’t they just revert to how it was done before where you just buy your form, fill it and return or even if they want to change, they should rather make the process easier than the previous one instead of making life difficult for us.”
Source: The Nation Newspaper
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