The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has warned mother and father towards enrolling minors for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
The Registrar of JAMB, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede gave the warning whereas reacting to a swimsuit filed by one Mrs. Ifeanyi Eke, towards the Board, over alleged inappropriate textual content messages despatched to her 15-year-old daughter in the course of the course of her registration.
It could be recalled that Mrs. Eke has filed a N100m swimsuit towards JAMB and three others earlier than the Federal Excessive Court docket in Lagos over alleged unsolicited and inappropriate textual content messages despatched to her 15-year-old daughter.
However in an interview with the press on Tuesday, Oloyede mentioned the Board is able to meet with the girl.
He maintained that the sender of the message was not its workers.
The Registrar additional acknowledged that for the reason that incident occurred, JAMB reported to the safety companies to take acceptable motion however the lady didn’t care, and sued JAMB for N100 million.
He mentioned, “The particular person will not be our workers, he isn’t even a workers of the centre, he’s a co-student. He is rather like a candidate, an undergraduate in one of many Universities
“And speaking about our knowledge, no person has entry to our knowledge. The particular person acquired the data from the telephone of the underage lady.
“How was your lady of 15 years prepared for College now? If she is regulation abiding as she claimed. The regulation immediately is that you need to spend six years earlier than major college, six years in major college and 6 years in secondary college. By that point, you might be 18.
“However whenever you scale back three years, you need to have minimize corners to make a 15-year-old youngster prepared for college schooling.
“We are going to meet her in court docket, it’s for the court docket to resolve whether or not she deserves that cash.”
The JAMB boss maintained that the particular person acquired the phone variety of the sufferer on the heart as a result of they’d a type to fill, saying that it has dealt appropriately with the middle.
He continued, “even the facilities do not need entry to our database, the particular person should have collected the quantity whereas interacting together with her on the heart.
“We handled the middle on negligence, for permitting unauthorized individuals to have entry to the place these candidates have been. And we’re urging mother and father to permit their kids to mature earlier than registering for UTME.”
“We at the moment are saying that any heart that enables a dad or mum to get close to to the place the candidates are being screened, that centre will likely be deleted.
“Dad and mom can’t destroy the profession of their kids due to their feelings and indiscipline,” he added.
