Some of the teachers who participated in the recruitment examination in Anambra State have expressed dissatisfaction over the malfunctioning of the website, ANAMBRA PEOPLE reports.
The crash of the website 30 minutes into the exam caused wide complaints among the participants.
One of them who identified himself as Kenechukwu Ibe, lamented that they were 30 minutes into the exam when the site went off, thereby causing disruption in the process.
However, the Commissioner for Education, Ngozi Udeh, debunked the claims, saying that nothing of such happened.
”I don’t know what they meant that the site crashed. Over 6,000 applicants submitted their papers successfully, and that is what I’m going to report to the governor and not what you are telling me that they complained about.”
But Ibe on his part, said, “This is another confusion from the government. We were about 30 minutes into the exam when the site went off and it made a lot of us unable to submit our papers.
“Now somebody is telling us that 6,000 applicants successfully submitted their papers. This is funny. Why won’t they tell us that they had taken bribe from 6,000 people to give them jobs? I don’t expect this level of confusion from this government.”
The state, through a public announcement, had called for the application for recruitment of teachers into the state’s school system.
About 40,000 candidates had applied for the 5,000 teachers the state had concluded to employ and out of the 40,000 the state had shortlisted about 31,000 for the online exam which took place on Saturday, from where the required 5,000 would be recruited “based on merit”.
The public announcement in that respect from the state’s ministry of education read partly, “The ministry received 40,000 plus applications. The ministry listed about 31,800 qualified applicants after reviews.
“Applicants who are too old for civil service, graduates without NYSC discharge certificate or exemption letter were disqualified.
“Against the proposed 5,000 qualified applicants to be shortlisted for CBT exam, the state government directed that all the over 31,000 listed applicants should be given equal chance to participate in a preliminary online exam, before shortlisting the successful applicants for second CBT exam.
“The preliminary exam will be online and will hold on Saturday 4/6/2022 at your comfort zone/home/place and with your device-smartphone, laptop or Cyber cafe.The applicants to get ready for the exam by 10:30am on the Saturday.
“The exam will start off at 11am dot on the Saturday and will last for one hour (11am to 12noon)
“The applicants will receive their login password an hour before the exam time and log in at 10:55am to get set for the exam.Your exam result/score will pop up on your device once you submit.
No second chance if you miss the exam.
“There will be a second CBT exam for the applicants that will scale through the first preliminary google online exam successfully. To be announced when due.
“Applicants are cautioned not to give money to any person for securing appointment in the recruitment process, as it’s not possible and it is also a crime. Appointment will be on merit basis.”
I was on the website both on my smart phone and laptop thirty minutes before the time but was knocked out few minutes after eleven. I guess some pre arrangement were made on whom to give access.
*Today’s Report on Anambra Teachers Recruitment- Ogbaru LGA Anambra state 4/6/22*
My name is Comr. Chibuzor v Aghaeze with I.D number AN/TR/22/00694.. I’m pleading with Honourable commissioner of Education Prof. Ngozi C to hear our humble cry that the good people of ogbaru and Anambrians who are committed and willing to serve our dear state counter some challenges during the online intake examination.
More than 150 person assembled @ Emmanuel castle hall close to Atani police station with the help of *Hon. Somto Udenze* who provided some systems to write the exam…
The problems we encounters include
1. Poor network to the site
2. No optional site to log in
3. The stipulated time for the exam is less.
Plz, my *Honourable commissioner prof. Ngozi* *chuma* use your good heart to help us out
Thanks
Comr. Aghaeze C
Ogbaru
09074050754
I was having 2 smart phones and I left my house to a place that has a high reception. By 9:56am, I was on the site waiting eagerly for the exam. The timer was busy moving but I couldn’t log in even with the 2 phones. So frustrating. I kept on trying until around 11:51am.
I wrote and submitted the exam successfully. I did not bribe anyone, I don’t even have any connections as to who to bribe, nor do I have money to brine someone. There were network challenges, but I did submit successfully.
Honorable Commissioner, we please that you give us another chance to write the test.🙏 We were at a renowned cyber cafe at old road Nkpor, seated and logged into the site at 10:50am as instructed. We were looking at the count down to start exam. Once it counted 00:00, we all clicked ‘Start Exam’ but it hung and couldn’t login again. We did everything possible to make it work but we could not. We were more than 20 persons there but none of us wrote the exam. We plead that you use your good office to hear our plea and address the situation. 🙏