The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board(JAMB) has said it would withdraw the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination(UTME) result of Miss Ejikeme Joy Mmesoma for parading a fake score.
A statement released by the board's Head of
Public Affairs and Protocol, Fabian Benjamin, on Sunday July 2, says Mmesoma
scored 249 in the examination as against the 362 she is parading. The
organisation said it would prosecute Miss Ejikeme for tampering with its
result. It added that Miss Ejikeme was offered a N3 million scholarship by
founder of Innoson motors, Innocent Chukwuma for scoring 362 in the 2023 UTME.
The statement reads;
“The attention of the Joint Admissions and
Matriculation Board(JAMB) has been drawn to several publications in both print
and online media celebrating certain candidates for being high scorers in the
2023 UTME.
The Board is constrained to set the records straight
and wishes to state unequivocally that many of the results which many of these
candidates are parading are fake. In many instances, some of these candidates
had actually obtained far lower scores than they are claiming and had used some
funny software packages to manipulate their results to deceive unsuspecting
members of the public.
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 scholarship and
other recognition.
The Board would like to state that the likes
of Mmesoma are still out there deceiving those who are always in a hurry to bestow
honours on candidates without confirming from the Board.
A similar case was that of one Atung Gerald
in Kaduna, who claimed to have scored 380. His ethnic group had taken the issue
up requesting that he should be given special recognition only for the Board to
disappoint them with the incontestable fact that Atung never obtained the 2023
UTME application documents not to talk of sitting the examination.
The Board would, therefore, want to advise
the public to always cross check these claims by candidates with the Board
before rushing to honour them with undeserving awards as certain software have
been created to fake their version of their results and put same out in the
public space for fun and this is what the sponsors of these candidates are using
to defraud good-spirited Nigerians such as Dr. Innocent, the founder of Innoson
Motors, who sincerely desires to celebrate academic excellence by investing in
the education of a young Nigerian.
We commended the likes of Dr. Innocent
Chukwuma and wish to encourage other Nigerians, who desire to invest in the
future of genuine youngsters, never to be discouraged but to always ensure that
they get the authentic results from the Board as done by the Anambra State
Ministry of Education, otherwise they will be celebrating criminality as this
is just another new fraudulent method in town. However, these candidates only
succeed in manipulating what they are holding as the authentic results are with
the Board and would be transmitted to their schools of choice at the
appropriate time.
It is to be noted that Miss Mmesoma had sent
a message to the Board’s platform to request her UTME result after which she
manually inflated her scores and pasted the same on the 2022 UTME result sheet.
Unknown to her, the Board had changed the design of the 2023 UTME result sheet.
Her original result remains 249 as nothing can change that. With this her
ignoble act, Miss Mmesoma would be prosecuted and her original result
withdrawn. This is not all as the Board would, in due course, investigate all
candidates laying claims to higher scores than they actually obtained. Once
discovered, such candidates’ original results would be withdrawn forthwith and
they would be handed over to relevant security agencies for prosecution.”
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