According to Punch reports, Anambra candidate, Mmesoma Ejikeme, who was accused by the Joint Admissions Matriculation Board of forging her 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination on Monday insisted that she didn’t forge her result as claimed by the examination board.
This was said by Ejikeme in a video that our journalist in Abuja was able to secure.
According to The PUNCH, JAMB noted in a statement on Sunday night that Ejikeme had artificially inflated her UTME score from 249 to 362, exploited that number to secure a N3 million scholarship from Innoson Motors, and was about to receive the scholarship from the Anambra state government before she was discovered.
The most pitiful of them all is the case of Miss Ejikeme Joy Mmesoma, who claimed to have received a scholarship worth N3 million from Chief (Dr.) Innocent Chukwuma after claiming to have achieved a score of 362 in the 2023 UTME. When one of the Anambra State Government’s senior officials called JAMB to validate Miss Ejikeme Joy Mmesoma’s claim, the Board informed the Board that Miss Ejikeme Joy Mmesoma had really got 249 and not the 362 she claimed, delaying the Anambra State Government’s plans to recognise her. In order to deceive the public and illegally gain a scholarship and other recognitions, she had falsified her UTME results, according to a JAMB statement.
However, Ejikeme stated, “My name is Ejikeme Mmesoma, in the video. I am the proprietor of this outcome. I requested to print this result through the JAMB portal, and they sent it to me. This sum, 362, is mine.
When they scanned the QR code on my score, it revealed the Yoruba name Omotola Afolabi, who received a score of 138.
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“When the identical Omotola was rechecked, it received a score of 338, and this data demonstrated that there is an issue.
I printed and downloaded it just this way from their website. Therefore, to imply that I forged my findings is something I don’t know, and I’m frightened by their accusation since I can’t forge my results, she continued.
She emphasised, however, that despite being notified, JAMB and the DSS did not conduct their own investigations before the board came to the conclusion that she had fabricated her results.
At the time this story was filed, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, the JAMB spokesperson, had not yet commented on the video.
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Associated press: Punch
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