Non-academic staff disrupts JAMB mock examination at OAU

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- Non-teaching staff members of Obafemi Awolowo University disrupted the JAMB mock examination scheduled to hold in the school premises

- The workers reportedly disrupted the exam in protest against the university management’s decision to withdraw their earned allowance

- The university’s vice chancellor condemned the action of the unions which he said could have a negative impact on the university

The non-teaching staff members of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile Ife, under the Non- Academic Staff Union of Universities (NASU) on Monday, February 26, disrupted the mock examination of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) in the school premises.

The mock examination was scheduled to hold on Monday within the OAU premises, being one of the centre approved for JAMB CBT by the examination body, Channels TV reports.

NAIJ.com gathered that the centre coordinator, OAU ICT, Sururah Bello, said that the examination could not hold after the non-teaching staff stormed the centre.

She said the union members were aggrieved due to the fact that the Joint Action Committee, an umbrella body of the three unions, declared that the earned allowance earlier given to the management should be withdrawn.

The vice chairman of the National Association of Academics Technologist (NAAT), Adeyosoye Olusoji, accused the management of threatening the workers.

Olusoji also claimed that the management ordered that the OAU workers should go back to their offices to avoid being dismissed.

He said the vice chancellor of the university, Professor Eyitope Ogunbodede, had threatened to invite the police into the campus to clear the roadblocks mounted by striking workers.

According to him, this brought about the reactions which caused the aggrieved workers to disrupt the JAMB mock examination.

However, the vice chancellor denied the allegations, saying he was only appealing to the workers to allow the mock examination to hold as OAU was just part of the designated centres.

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Professor Ogunbodede condemned the action of the unions which he said could have a negative impact on the university.

NAIJ.com previously reported that the JAMB mock examination for 2018 UTME was planned to hold on Monday, February 26.

Fabian Benjamin, JAMB’s head of media and Information, on Sunday, February 18, in Lagos said a total of 245,753 of the 1,652,795 candidates that registered for this year’s UTME are expected to write the test.

He said: “We are happy to announce to the public that the board has concluded arrangement for the conduct of the mock UTME, slated for Monday, February 26.

“This is irrespective of the ongoing strike embarked upon by members of non-academic unions of federal universities nationwide..."

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