WARRI— CONCERNED parents and JAMB registered cyber cafe owners in Warri, Delta State, have appealed to the Registrar of JAMB to open more centres urgently to save the future of candidates wishing to write the 2012/2013 Universal Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME.

The association said in a statement by its Chairman, Iwetan Solomon and Secretary, Richard Ijakpimi that “since the middle of January, all centres in Edo, Delta, Rivers and Bayelsa states, had been filled up.”

It added that some towns, which previously had more centres were reduced this year, while more people from Nigerian Defence Academy, NDA, polytechnics, part-time Navy and others have been compulsorily made to write UTME examination.

The association said that when JAMB decided to open one centre each in Asaba and Benin, it took just two hours to fill the centres and “there are many more candidates that are waiting for centres, whose finger prints had been captured already.”

It called on JAMB authorities to create more paper, pencil, test centres, so “candidates do not see the examination as punishment.”