By Luke Onyekakeyah
The confusion that has trailed the
re-introduction of the post University Tertiary Matriculation Examination
(post-UTME) in higher educational institutions across the country over the fees
payable by candidates forced me to dig into the legality or otherwise of the
test that now determines our children’s educational destiny. There should be an
established law for post-UTME otherwise, it should be scrapped. The test has
become so controversial and ought to be challenged in court of law.
Is there a law that established
the post-UTME? I called some lawyers to get their view on the legality of the
post-UTME. All the lawyers said, to the best of their knowledge, there is no
known law that established the post-UTME in Nigeria
If that is the case, why leave an illegality
to rule the system and even truncate the aspirations of most candidates? Who
introduced the post-UTME in the first place and for what purpose?
