The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has cautioned mother and father and guardians towards enrolling minors within the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination.
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 throughout her registration.
This was contained in an announcement by the Board’s spokesperson, Fabian Benjamin on Wednesday in Abuja.
Eke had 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 reacting to the incident, Oloyede mentioned the Board was prepared to fulfill with the lady, sustaining that the sender of the message was not the Board’s employees.
The Registrar mentioned because the incident occurred, JAMB reported to safety companies to take applicable motion however the lady didn’t care, suing for N100 million on the expense of the kid.
He mentioned, “The particular person will not be our employees, he isn’t even a employees 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 one has entry to our knowledge. The particular person bought the knowledge from the telephone of the underage woman.
“How did your woman of 15 years prepare for college now? If she is law-abiding as she claimed. The regulation at present is that you could 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 while you cut back three years, you could have minimize corners to make a 15-year-old little one prepared for college schooling.
“We’ll meet her in courtroom, it’s for the courtroom to determine whether or not she deserves that cash.”
The JAMB boss maintained that the particular person bought the phone variety of the sufferer on the centre as a result of that they had a kind to fill out, saying that it had dealt appropriately with the centre, the reason is that it shouldn’t have allowed unauthorised individuals on the premises.
He continued, “Even when the centres don’t have entry to our database, the particular person should have collected the quantity whereas interacting together with her on the centre
“We handled the centre on negligence, for permitting unauthorised individuals to have entry to the place these candidates have been. And we’re urging mother and father to permit their kids to be mature earlier than registering for UTME.
“We at the moment are saying that any centre that enables a mum or dad to get close to to the place the candidates are being screened, that centre can be deleted.
“Secondly, we’ve got instructed the centres to cease figuring out the mother and father of the candidates and we are going to take applicable motion towards the candidates.
“Dad and mom can’t destroy the profession of their kids due to their feelings and indiscipline.”
