PARENTS CAUTION EKITI UNIVERSITY AGAINST EXTORTION

According to concerned parents, who spoke to reporters on Thursday in Ado Ekiti lamented the repeated screening exercises introduced by the authorities in relation to the 2016/2017 admission exercise is unbearable.

Those who spoke to newsmen accused the university of conducting double screening exercises for the prospective students, with each of the screening attracting fix amount of N5,600, despite the ban Federal government placed on such screening exercise

Mrs Afeniforo Emmanuel said,
“a sum of N5,600 was paid to the prescribed banks for the exercise; I thought that the next was for her ward to be offered or denied admission. I was shocked to discover that having sailed through the initial screening, her child was again last week invited to another round of screening exercise and asked to pay another N5,600.”

Another parent, Mr Kunle Adeyemi said

"it took the intervention of the institution’s students’ union body to get the authorities of the university to reduce the second screening fee to N3,100, inclusive of bank charges."

A disabled parent, Mrs kafayat Folaranmi "called on JAMB to intervene in their plight since the warning against extortion in the name of post-UTME screening came since July."

‎Meanwhile, going through the list, a newly admitted student is required to pay a minimum of N80,000, in addition to minimum of N50,000 acceptance fee, as against total payment of N50,000 recommended by the state government.