UTME candidates queue for 3 days as JAMB takes e-payment to the stone age

We wouldn’t be here if the Joint Admission Matriculation Board (JAMB) didn’t cancel the use of scratch cards.

But JAMB feared UTME candidates were being cheated by card retailers so this new, and obviously problematic, system. Students have to physically buy UTME e-forms inside a banking hall, and in 2017!

The following, according to NAN, is happening in Ilorin.

The prospective 2017 Joint Admission Matriculation Board (JAMB) candidates in Ilorin have decried the rigorous process of registering for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).

The candidates, who were seen in long queues in Banks and registration centres, including JAMB Office, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), in Ilorin on Friday that the registration process was frustrating, stressful and beyond human comprehension.

A candidate, Biola Adams, told NAN that he had been queuing under the sun since Wednesday to make payment and acquire pin code.

“It is becoming unbearable as the process is tough. Every bank in Ilorin here is filled up with JAMB candidates under this hot weather as the process is very slow. “Just because we want to write JAMB and we are subjected to this kind of stress. It is unfair on the path of our leaders in this country. “They don’t care about the consequence of the stress,” he said.

Another candidate, Folaranmi Oyekunle, who was in a queue said she took ill when started the registration process.

Similarly, Azeez Ibrahim, told NAN that he began the registration on Monday and was yet to achieve anything tangible because of the surging crowd at the banks.

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“We don’t know why it is like that this year. The process is too complex and stressful. One of us even collapsed on the queue on Thursday following the unbearable stress,” Ibrahim said.

An official of Zenith Bank, who pledged anonymous, said the banking hall was congested with JAMB candidates, adding that it was not good for the security of the bank.

“It is dangerous for the Bank to be filled up with this uncontrollable number of people queuing up inside and outside the bank. “I even pity their situations as the weather is too hot for young people to stand in it for hours,” the official said.

JAMB staff in Ilorin, who pleaded anonymity, appealed to students to bear with the organisation and endure for a time being, adding that success doesn’t come easy.