The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has classified Albinos as visually impaired persons thus qualifying them for special treatment during examinations.
Registrar of JAMB, Prof. ’Dibu Ojerinde said this while briefing officials of the examination body in Abuja on Saturday.
He said the board would henceforth classify albinos as visually impaired persons which qualifies them to enjoy additional time of two hours in its future examinations.
Ojerinde said, the decision was informed by the peculiar sight problem associated with albinism.
He stressed the need for all examination bodies to do whatever they could to assist these vulnerable persons.
The registrar said, “For us in JAMB, we are trailing the blaze by incorporating the eye problem of the group into our examination planning.”
He further said JAMB was determined to provide a level playing field for all albinos desirous of tertiary education.
This, he said, could include providing them with magnifying lenses to help them enlarge type faces of words for examinations in no distant future.
Responding, the President of the Albino’s Foundation, Jake Epelle, expressed confidence that the foundation’s visit would translate into more albinos registering and passing future UTME.
Epelle commended JAMB for far reaching innovations especially its decision to officially categorise and treat albinos as visually impaired persons.
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