Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, the Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board, JAMB, has slammed a woman whose underaged 15-year-old daughter sat for for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME.)
The woman, one Mrs. Ifeanyi Eke, had dragged JAMB to court, claiming N100 million because a staff of the board contacted her 15-year-old daughter inappropriately.
However, Oloyede while addressing newsmen, denied that the person that the woman claimed contacted her daughter is a staff of the examination body.
According to him: “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. The person got the information from the phone of the underage girl.
“How was your girl of 15 years 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.
“We will meet her in court, it is for the court to decide whether she deserves that money.
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