Some 180.000 candidates sat for the
General Certificate of Education-GCE (A Level and O level) are worried and
disturbed over the nonchalant attitude of the Cameroon GCE Board. This is so
because majority of them have not been able to get their results. The results
were announced over Cameroon Radio Television-CRTV today July 31, 2015.
It has been a tradition that results are
always published in Newspaper. But since 2013, the GCE Board introduced a new
system whereby candidates could obtain their results through the mobile phone. Humphrey
Monono argued by then that he was trying to give equal opportunities to all the
candidates especially those in rural areas. With the results already published,
majority of the candidates have complained bitterly that they texted the
required information several times using the code (8006) that was read on radio,
but did not get the feedback. Even though their airtime credit was consumed, no
responses were received.
Humphrey Monono, Registrar of the GCE
Board, they said is seemingly more concern with what he makes for his pockets more
than their satisfaction. “He is there because we also wrote the GCE. In fact, I
see this as a new form of scamming”. One of the students who said he had consumed
over FCFA 300 air time in his phone complained that he sent the message
severally (5 times) yet received no feedback. “Why is it the GCE Board cannot
post the results on the site”, Nformi Jeanis exploded in anguish.
Students stormed newspaper sales and
cyber cafes to get the results but ended up in a mess. Tongues are still waging
as to why Humphrey Monono could test the system before going into any agreement
with the said mobile company. Some students are wondering why the GCE Board
could not make the results available in all the centres in record time.
Popular opinion holds that this is very
poor of the CGCEB, after many criticisms and setbacks for the last two years; the
GCEB can't get better options to view students’ results. To others it is horrible
and Monono has failed. “What a shame to the GCE board; that results will be announced
as released yet students can’t have their results on time just because somebody
somewhere wants to make money out of the result
When News Breaks Out, We Break In. (The 2014 Bloggies Finalist)
1 comment:
Yes please we are all cameroonians; don't think about your self but also the students
it is a horrible thing for you to know that the results are out and you can't get access to it
yes it is a form of scamming and i say a big shame to the GCEB
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