Some applicants in Bwari seeking to register for the
2017 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), have expressed concern
over delay in the registration processes.
They told the News
Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday that the delay was worrisome, considering
the short period of March 20 to April 19 fixed for the exercise nationwide
Mr Hope Okoro, an
applicant who spoke to NAN at the JAMB Computer Based Centre in Kogo community,
located in Bwari, said the registration process was easy, but for the delay in banks.
“The registration is
easy and fast; the problem is just the queue at the bank where you pay for the
form,” he said.
Miss Patience Nweke, an
applicant, complained of challenges she faced in two banks within the area,
adding that the exercise was stressful.
“First, we were delayed
at one of the banks that did not even care to attend to us. When we went to
another bank, the queue was unbearably too long
“I was here at 7 a.m.
on Monday when the sales of the UTME form was said to have commenced but we were
not attended to till 3 p.m. the next day after standing under the sun for
long,” she lamented.
Another applicant, Miss
Ann Ajayi, said although such exercise involved some form of delay, the
attitude exhibited by some bank staff lacked much to be desired.
She said even after for
a long time in one of the banks (name withheld), none of the staff attended to
them.
“We were told by
someone said to be a bank staff, that the JAMB Registrar had not approved the
selling of forms,” she said.
Reacting to the complaints,
Mr Abdusalam Mohammed, Supervisor of the JAMB CBT centre in Kogo, Bwari Area
Council, insisted that no hitches had so far been experienced in the cause of
the registration.
“The delay complained
about is not from us; the delay was from the banks, but that has been rectified
and the registration is going on perfectly,” Mohammed insisted.
A staff one of the
banks in Bwari who pleaded anonymity, said most of the financial institutions
were yet to commence registration processes because they were still making
arrangements for hitch-free exercise
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