JAMB age limit policy unconstitutional, must be suspended — Concerned parents

….Stage protestation successful Lagos office

By Olasunkanmi Akoni and David Aghaeze

A unit radical nether the umbrella of The Movement Against JAMB Injustice, comprising acrophobic parents, has described the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB’s property bounds argumentation successful Nigeria arsenic unconstitutional and should beryllium discarded forthwith.

The radical therefore, urged the Federal Government to reappraisal the property bounds discriminatory argumentation and let candidates who volition beryllium 16 years aged earlier the extremity of the 2025/2026 world league to question admittance into immoderate instauration successful Nigeria.

Leading the radical connected a protestation march to JAMB bureau successful Lagos yesterday, amid dense rainfall, Mr Olusegun Steven, besides called connected JAMB and the Ministry of Education to see extending the day to December for the involvement of equity and fairness.

The placard carrying group, described the JAMB’s argumentation of mounting a cutoff people of 320 for students beneath 16 years aged by September 30th arsenic “arbitrary, unfair, and a breach of children’s rights to education.

According to the group: “We are shocked and disappointed that contempt a tribunal ruling against property discrimination, Prof Ishaq Oloyede and the Minister of Education, Dr. Tunji Alausa, are inactive enforcing this policy.

“This argumentation is not lone unfair but besides discriminatory, and we volition not basal idly by portion our children’s rights are being trampled upon.”

Steven cited the lawsuit of a kid who scored 315 and is meant to survey Architecture successful a backstage assemblage but was denied the accidental to upload her results owed to age.

 “Why should JAMB unilaterally take a cutoff people for students beneath 16 years aged by September 30th and not December?.

“So, contiguous we are present astatine the JAMB bureau located astatine Ikoyi Lagos with a peaceful protestation and we won’t halt until Prof. Oloyede suspend the obnoxious, discriminatory property bounds policy.”

Prof. Atiba Samuel, a subordinate of the question from Ekiti, noted that portion the radical is not against the argumentation of a 16-year admittance property limit, it should not commencement astatine the intermediate level.

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