Students Protest, Block JAMB Office In Sokoto

If not for the intervention of security forces, yesterday would have been a sorrow tale day for staff of the Sokoto State Joint Admission and Matriculation Board so said an angry Jambites whose result was not released by the board.

The Jambites who trooped into the Giginya Secretariat as early as 9am to block Sokoto JAMB office came with unreserved anger boldly written on their minds. While swinging neem tree and chanting solidarity songs over what they considered assault on their intellect by the board.
Speaking to Reporters at the scene of the protest, Yushau Yusuf Mabera who sat for the UTME at Nana Girls School within Sokoto metropolis said, a good number of them were affected by the verification exercise.

Another student who said he wrote his at the Sultan Maccido Qu’anic Institute said, majority of them who wrote at the centre were unable to do the biometric thump because the machine was bad. According to him, while these happened, they were asked to write down their names and go inside for the exams with the assurance that it would be taken care of.

Speaking in tears, Zaharadeen Abubakar, Manir Bala, Adebebe Peter and many others who gathered in their cluster said, they were over 1000 that wrote the exams in Unity Comprehensive College, Sokoto but none of their result was released.

When asked whether there was any malpractice in the centre, Adebede Peters said, nobody cheated adding that, it was the exams body that have cheated them in this case hence after paying for JAMB form they asked them to go inside and write hence the biometric data capturing machine was faulty. “They promised to capture us after the exams but they never did and now we can’t see our results”.