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The Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide has condemned the decision of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) to hold a fresh Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) for candidates whose results were compromised by technical glitches.
Following the admission by JAMB’s Registrar, Professor Ishaq Oloyede, that errors in the recently released UTME scores impacted candidates in Lagos and the South-East, the Board proposed a makeup exam to rectify the issue.
But in a swift response issued Thursday, the Youth Council’s National President, Mazi Okwu Nnabuike, dismissed the plan as unacceptable and unjust to the affected students.
He argued that forcing the candidates to re-sit the exam was both stressful and unnecessary.
Okwu decried the mental and emotional toll on students, stating that they should not be punished for faults originating from JAMB’s system.
“Our students are already psychologically drained from the initial shock of false results,” he said.
He questioned who would shoulder the cost of another exam and raised concerns about student safety amidst nationwide insecurity.
“Expecting parents already struggling financially to fund another round of exams is outrageous,” he added.
The youth leader demanded that all affected candidates from the South-East be awarded a minimum score of 300, saying they possess the intellectual ability to earn such marks.
He further suggested that the incident may be a calculated attempt to undermine students from the region.