The management of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB has banned Miss Mmesoma Ejikeme for three years from writing the UTME examinations following the accusation that she manipulated her result and had the highest score of 362 instead of 249.
In a statement by the Board’s spokesman, Fabian Benjamin on Tuesday morning, JAMB accused Miss Mmesoma of tampering with her result.
“Consequently, the Board would like to reassure Nigerians that its system was neither tampered with nor compromised as the candidate simply falsified a copy of a result slip of a candidate named “Asimiyu Mariam Omobolanle,” who sat the UTME in 2021 and scored 138.
“It is also instructive to note that the candidate, in her statement, has inadvertently revealed the rightful owner of the result she is parading when she pointed out that the QR code on the result slip showed the actual owner of the said result before she peddled a lie in an attempt to obfuscate the truth.
“To witness the unassailable position of the Board regarding this obvious falsehood, the general public is, therefore, urged to endeavor to scan the QR code on the result slip to see its actual owner before it was mutilated. It is to be noted that the QR code encapsulates the UTME result of each candidate, hence, what is on the result sheet is nothing other than the interpretation of the information on this QR code.
“Furthermore, the public is also to note that the Board stopped issuing Notification of Result slips after the 2021 UTME for the simple reason that candidates were falsifying them. Consequently, the Board has been issuing actual UTME RESULT Slips (not notification of results ) since 2022 complete with the photograph of each candidate.
“Similarly, the public is also invited to ponder on the fact that out of all the candidates that sat the 2023 UTME, only Ms. Ejikeme Mmesoma parades the obsolete ‘Notification of Result.
“In the meantime, the management of the Board, after considering the weighty infraction committed by Ms. Ejikeme Joy Mmesoma, and in line with its established procedures, has withdrawn her 2023 UTME result and also barred her from sitting the Board’s examination for the next three years.”
In her defense, Mmesoma revealed in a video clip that the slip was what she was given when she checked her JAMB score at the computer center and stated that when she noticed the disparity in her result, she contacted the principal of her school who took her to the Ministry of Education.
She disclosed that the DSS was invited but JAMB published her name and picture for fraud even before the completion of the investigation.
Mmesoma who was given an N3 million scholarship by the Innoson group disclosed that she took the first position through her primary and secondary schools and so had no reason to falsify her results.
Meanwhile, Nigerians have called for an independent investigation into the incident while stating that public institutions in the country have fallen below the bar.
