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JAMB Issues Warning Against Enrolling Minors Amid Alleged Privacy Breach
Eko Hot Blog reports that the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has cautioned parents and guardians against enrolling minors in the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
This warning comes in the wake of a lawsuit filed by Mrs. Ifeanyi Eke against JAMB and three others over alleged unsolicited and inappropriate text messages sent to her 15-year-old daughter during registration.
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Reacting to the incident, the JAMB Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, stated that the Board is ready to meet with Mrs. Eke, maintaining that the sender of the messages was not a JAMB staff member.
“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,” Oloyede said.
The Registrar emphasized that JAMB’s data is secure and that the person who sent the messages likely obtained the victim’s phone number at the registration center.
“And talking about our data, nobody has access to our data. The person got the information from the phone of the underage girl,” he added.
Oloyede questioned the legality of enrolling a 15-year-old for university admission, stating that the minimum age should be 18 after completing six years each of primary and secondary education.
“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,” he said.
JAMB has taken action against the registration center for negligence in allowing unauthorized persons access to the candidate screening area. The Board has also instructed centers to stop identifying parents and will take appropriate action against candidates whose parents violate the rules.
“We are now saying that any centre that allows a parent to get near to where the candidates are being screened, that centre will be deleted,” Oloyede warned. “Secondly, we have instructed the centres to stop identifying the parents of the candidates and we will take appropriate action against the candidates.”
The Registrar cautioned parents against jeopardizing their children’s careers due to emotions and indiscipline, emphasizing that JAMB will meet Mrs. Eke in court to address her N100 million lawsuit.
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“Parents cannot destroy the career of their children because of their emotions and indiscipline,” Oloyede stated. “We will meet her in court, it is for the court to decide whether she deserves that money.”
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