According to the parents in a petition to the minister, their wards who sat the 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination chose the Academy as their first and second choice of institution.
Some parents have asked Muhammad Dingyadi, Minister of Police Affairs to intervene in the alleged admission irregularities going at the Nigeria Police Academy, Wudil in Kano State, Northwest Nigeria.
According to the parents in a petition to the minister, their wards who sat the 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination chose the Academy as their first and second choice of institution.
They claimed that the admission which was to have taken effect in September 2021 into the 9th regular course was suspended as a result of the backlog of 2020 admission seekers which was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The concerned parents said in September 2021, candidates affected by the backlog were admitted into the 8th regular course to start academic activities, while the 2020 successful candidates were told to wait till September 2022 before the commencement of admission.
The petition read, “The pitiable plight of the candidates who sacrificed to serve the nation in curbing crimes despite the prevalence of security challenges is unimaginable. Unfortunately, candidates who sat the Joint Admission Matriculation Board and applied for the 2021 admissions to the Academy with the hope of being admitted have been discarded for no fault of theirs despite the COVID-19 that ravaged that session.
“Compassionately, other institutions like the Kano State University of Science of Technology, (KUST) now Aliko Dangote University of Science and Technology, Wudil considered and merged two (2) years’ applicants and were admitted before the emergence of the ASUU (Academic Staff Union of Universities) strike.
“It is worrisome to note that most of the 2022 applicants have not gotten their West African Examination Council (WAEC) and National Examination Council (NECO) results released, and the Academy Admission application portal did not make any provision for ‘awaiting results’ in the application platform that JAMB (Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board) and other Universities always graciously create room for an applicant whose results are yet to be released.
“From all indications, it's worthy to note that WAEC (West African Examination Council) has a challenge with its results platform this year so most candidates who took the WAEC have not gotten their results released yet. Apart from that, other applicants who sat the NECO examination are still waiting as it has finished marking and released this year's results.
“It is also a mockery that the Nigeria Police Academy, a renowned and first of its kind in the West African region domiciled in Nigeria, owned by the Nigerian Government as a source of revenue generation will disregard a national examination body (National Business and Technical Examinations Board -NABTEB) by completely sidelining potential candidates who took this body’s examination but recognizes General Certificate Examination (GCE).
“Also worthy of note is the fact that the Academy is about to subject the applicants to a centralised Computer Based Aptitude Test (CBT) which will be domiciled at the Academy, without accommodation provision, thereby compelling potential cadets from travelling all over the country amidst the ‘insecurity threats and risks associated’ with vehicular and air movements in the present era where such examinations can be conducted at the most convenient of the applicants against the usual practice the Academy has always employed.
“It is against this milieu that we concerned parents are worried about the 2021 and 2022 applicants who are on the verge of being locked out having patiently waited and have sacrificed to lay down their lives to be trained for the security of the nation are calling on the relevant stakeholders to intervene for fairness and justice to be the watchword of the process by including the 2021 JAMB applicants and extending the period of applications for 2022 or making provision for awaiting results which JAMB and other similar bodies equally acknowledged.”