JAMB 2016: Tight Security In Edo As UTME Commences

The 2016 JAMB UTME commenced on Saturday across 19 centres in Edo, including Benin city, the capital, amidst tight security in a bid to prevent security hitches that were experienced previously in 2015.

According to reports from NAN, in some of the centres in Benin, men of the Police Force and Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) were present at the centres visited.

The reports also state that the Police and the NSCDC jointly deployed a total of 167 officers to various centres across the state.

The state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Mr Abiodun Osifo and the NSCDC Spokesman, Mr Efosa Ogbebor, who both spoke to NAN, said that they provided 101 and 68 personnel respectively to ensure peaceful conduct of the examination.

They said that the personnel would be on ground throughout the six days the examination would last. They also stated that unlike the hitches that followed the conduct of the Computer Based Test (CBT) UTME in 2015 that of 2016 would be devoid of such hitches this year.

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