ENUGU — Candidates writing the 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) in Enugu were on Monday stranded following the weekly sit-at-home order by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) in the South-East.
The examination which commenced on Friday, May 6, ought to have ended on Monday, May 9, but was shifted by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) to Tuesday, May 10.
A JAMB official who spoke to journalists on the condition of anonymity on Monday in Enugu said the development was due to the enforcement of the sit-at-home order in the South-East region every Monday.
Some of the candidates who also spoke to journalists said they were not aware of the cancellation.
Many complained that they only discovered that the date and time for the exam had been shifted to Tuesday, May 10 by 7:00 a.m when they got to their examination centres.
“There was no vehicle to convey my friend and me to the TETFUND centre at the University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus, (UNEC), where we were supposed to write the examination,” a candidate lamented.
“My dad took us by his car to the centre and we were disappointed when other students standing at the entrance of the hall told us that it has been postponed to Tuesday.”
Another candidate who identified herself simply as Chigozie, said the examination body ought to have informed them earlier about the change in the examination timetable than allow them to take the risk of coming to the centre.
“It is risky to go out on Mondays in Enugu for fear of the unknown but here we are to write our CBT which did not hold. Personally, I feel disappointed and stranded because my house is far from the centre,” she bemoaned.
In the same vein, the students writing the ongoing West African Examination Council (WAEC) in the state equally decried the stress they went through to write Monday’s Food and Nutrition due to unavailability of transportation.
Some of them who spoke said they trekked long distances to meet up with the exam.
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