The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has cautioned parents, against enrolling minors for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
The Registrar of JAMB, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede gave the warning while reacting to a suit, filed by Mrs. Ifeanyi Eke, against the Board, over alleged inappropriate text messages sent to her 15-year-old daughter during her registration
He argued:
“How did your girl of 15 years get ready for University now? If she is law-abiding as she claimed. The law today is that you must spend six years before primary school, six years in primary school and six years in secondary school. By that time, you are 18.”
“But when you reduce three years, you must have cut corners to make a 15-year-old child ready for University education.”
Mrs. Eke had filed a N100m suit against JAMB and three others before the Federal High Court in Lagos over alleged unsolicited and inappropriate text messages sent to her 15-year-old daughter.
But in his reaction Professor Oloyede while speaking with the press on Tuesday, expressed the readiness of the Board to take on the complainant, maintaining that the sender of the message was not a member of staff of JAMB.
The Registrar said JAMB had followed up on the incident by reporting to the security agencies to take appropriate action but Mrs Eke had chosen to go ahead to sue JAMB for N100 million at the expense of the child.
He said, “The person is not our staff, he is not even a staff of the centre, he is a co-student. He is just like a candidate, an undergraduate in one of the Universities
“And talking about our data, nobody has access to our data.”
“We will meet her in court, it is for the court to decide whether she deserves that money.”
The JAMB Chief maintained that the person got the telephone number of the victim at the centre because they had a form to fill, saying that it has dealt appropriately with the centre, the reason being that it shouldn’t have allowed unauthorized persons on the premises
(C) ControlTV 2024.
