DiscussionThe Broken Nigerian System: My Nightmare At The JAMB Office And In My University
Earlier this month, all graduated students were asked to submit their JAMB admission letter and a copy of their NIN for screening, probably to be screened for the senate list for NYSC. Mine was rejected due to name mismatch My name is correctly spelt , just needed rearrangement. Also the course given to me by JAMB was different from what I actually studied. So I needed to make two corrections, Correction of names and change of program. I quickly headed to the JAMB state office here in kaduna and that was where my rough experience started. Getting there, I was amazed seeing the queue. Many students were there for different reasons. I had to sit and wait on the queue for many hours [b]just to make payments.[\b] while waiting in the outer hall, I could hear complaints about the network issue, which was part of the reason for the delays. After waiting and waiting, it got to my turn to make my payments, but it was time for afternoon prayers, only one person was in charge of the collection of payments and they had only one POS. When he saw me, he initially told me he will not attend to me because he's going for prayers. The disappointment I felt after waiting on the queue for hours. He was attending to someone who was supposed to be his last and they were having issues and he quickly turned to me, and that was my luck! After making payments, I thought my problem was over, only to be told to join the queue again, some people have been there since yesterday. I peered into the main room where they were attending to students, the workers were few, they also had few equipments, the network was fluctuating, they only had 1 camera to capture all the students there, the printer was misbehaving. For me, the most appalling observation was that the organization there lacked a form of structure, like the workers there did whatever they liked and was not accountable to anybody, it looked like any of the workers could close for the day or go out any time they like. After making my payment, I was just left alone standing there alone. When I asked the lady that processed my payments what next, she said I should meet anybody available. The whole process was just disorganized honestly. I couldn't continue my application for regularization and correction of names that day. I had to come back the next day. My question is, is this how things are done elsewhere or because it's Nigeria?
Omogbolahan· 7 months ago
