By Miracle Ogunde
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has slammed a three-year ban on Miss Mmesoma Ejikeme, who is embroiled in the controversy of scoring the highest mark in this year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME.
This comes as the Board says it cancels the result obtained by the candidate in the examination.
Speaking with newsmen, JAMB spokesman, Dr. Benjamin Fabian, accused the lady of engaging in criminal act.
In his words: “What she did was to alter a result that was obtained by somebody in the 2021 UTME. She is banned for three years from sitting for the UTME too. That result of hers, where she scored 249, has been cancelled as well.”
Speaking on how the girl could have altered her result without connivance with somebody in the Board, Fabian maintains that there was no hacking into the Board’s facility.
“Our results are safe and nobody has hacked into them. She only altered her results, and the QR code will always show her true result,” he added.
However, Mmesoma, in a post on her Facebook wall on Monday, denied any wrong doing, stating that she printed the result from the JAMB portal.
“They are just trying to harass me and my family. After the results were released over two months ago, why is it taking them this long to say what they are saying now? Now, using the QR code is indicating another name – Omotola Afolabi – which initially showed a score of 138 and, later, 338. Somebody cannot have two different results from the same examination.
“I cannot do what they are accusing me of. I have been a brilliant girl from my Nursery School days. I scored over 300 in my common entrance examination to secondary school,” she stated.
Meanwhile, the chairman of Innoson Vehicle Manufacturing, Chief Innocent Chukwuma, had said that the N3 million scholarship awarded to the girl would not be withdrawn if investigations proved that the girl did not forge the result.
Mmesoma came into limelight after her alleged 362 scores went viral as the overall best score in the 2023 UTME, while JAMB had on Sunday, declared Mmesoma’s 362 UTME score as fake, and revealed that her score was manually inflated, as her original score was 249. JAMB also announced the immediate withdrawal of Mmesoma’s UTME score.
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