This Clip Of Borno Students Struggling To Buy Jamb Forms Will Make You Quite Mad

A good number of things don’t add up in Nigeria. Social systems don’t work and maintenance of physical structures is a myth, but we at least thought we had gotten somewhere with the ease of carrying out transactions over the internet. More than 1.85 million students applied to write the UTME (Unified Tertiary Matriculation Exams)  in 2016, but the process remains crude.

This clip from a concerned Twitter user tells its own story

The struggle to buy JAMB form in Maiduguri the Borno state capital.

This short clip is telling a lot of story.

However you view it. pic.twitter.com/aRRBqs7YVG

— Yadomah Bukar Mandara (@Yadomah) March 22, 2017

The people of Borno are still recovering from the horrors of the Boko Haram sect. Why should they go through any of this?

It really doesn’t make sense that the Ministry of Education and JAMB(Joint Administration and Matriculation Board) don’t give top priority to students from the conflict-affected states in the North. For one, these kids have been forced to abandon their studies for years, surely the least we can do for them is make the learning process easier for them?

The process of applying for and getting the JAMB form needs to be a lot easier for students nationwide.

Jamb that one should buy from the comfort of his bed and apply there. Almost 3 decades after others simplified registrations online

— Sir Ruffy (@Sir_Ruffy) March 22, 2017

Is this really how JAMB officers do this thing? Turn form into petrol?

The JAMB officials are the cause. By next week they convert it to black market sale with the guise that it is out of stock. God help us

— Mathias Idi Ahmed (@Abimaty) March 22, 2017

The crudeness of the whole process is just galling.

@muazugarba It's so unfortunate that this is happening in the 21st century Nigeria

— BaShiR (@bsh4z) March 22, 2017

So it’s not only Borno? Exactly how many students are fighting to buy form like this?

I saw the same in Ilorin this afternoon. Can anyone explain why Jamb form is the new PMS?

— oyewole Temitope (@TemiOyewole) March 22, 2017

We’ve forgotten who the Minister for Education is (Do we have one?). But the person should kindly wake up from his or her slumber sometime this year.