JAMB logo, Miss Mmesoma Joy Ejikeme
By Our Reporter
The Joint Admissions Matriculation Board (JAMB) is literally swimming in a pool of controversy ovee the result of the Anambra candidate, Mmesoma Ejikeme who was accused of forging her 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination on Monday.
Ejikeme insisted that she didn’t forge her result as claimed by the examination board.
In a video that has gone viral, Ejikeme stated that she did not forge her result.
It would be recalled that JAMB had in a statement on Sunday evening revealed that Ejikeme manually inflated her UTME result from 249 to 362 and used her manually inflated score to attract a N3million scholarship from Innoson Motors and was set to be awarded by the Anambra state government before she was exposed.
“The most pathetic of them all is the case of Miss Ejikeme Joy Mmesoma, who claimed to have scored 362 in the 2023 UTME and was awarded a N3m scholarship by Chief (Dr.) Innocent Chukwuma. She was even set to be honoured by the Anambra State Government when one of its top officials put a call through to JAMB to confirm her claim only for the Board to reveal that Miss Ejikeme Joy Mmesoma had actually scored 249 and not 362 she claimed. She had manipulated her UTME result to deceive the public to fraudulently obtain a scholarship and other recognitions,” a statement by JAMB said.
Debunking JAMB’s submission, Ejikeme speaking in the video said, “My name is Ejikeme Mmesoma. I’m the owner of this result. I went to the JAMB portal to print this result and this is the result they gave me. This is my aggregate, 362.
“They scan the QR code on my result and it showed a Yoruba name — Omotola Afolabi who scored 138.
“The same Omotola scored 338 when it was rechecked and this evidence showed that there is a problem”
“This is exactly how I printed and downloaded it from their site. So saying that I forged my result is what I don’t know and I am traumatised that they accused me of forging my results because I’m not capable of forging my result,” she added.
Ejikeme said that she was taken to the DSS and they promised to investigate the matter.
She added that JAMB did not wait for the outcome of the investigations before concluding that she forged her result.
Also reacting to the development, the Head of Corporate Communications, Innoson Group,, Cornel Osigwe, said Mmesoma does not have the capacity to forge her result.
In a Twitter post made on Sunday, Osigwe claimed that Ejikeme does not have the capacity to forge her result as alleged by JAMB. He added that the candidate’s previous record at her school showed how brilliant she was, and even her principal testified to her brilliance.
He said, “That girl was one of the most brilliant in her school, according to the Principal, her parents couldn’t even afford to pay for her WEAC and NECO Exams. Of what advantage will it offer her to manipulate her JAMB score? Let the poor breathe pls.
“The girl I met doesn’t have the brain and capacity to manipulate her result. There is more to this story. A proper investigation needs to be done. Abeg let the poor breath.”
As at the time of filing this report, JAMB spokesperson,I Dr. Fabian Benjamin was yet to react to the video.
