The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board says it has put everything in place to prosecute one Ejikeme Mmesoma who was celebrated for having an o
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board says it has put everything in place to prosecute one Ejikeme Mmesoma who was celebrated for having an outstanding 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination result.
Mmesoma had claimed to have scored 362 in the examination, but JAMB is insisting that the said result was forged with a view to deceiving unsuspecting members of the public.
In a statement signed by its Head of Public Affairs and Press, Fabian Benjamin in Abuja on Sunday, vowed to withdraw the result which it described as inflated to attract a scholarship of N3 million from Innoson Motors and prosecute the candidate.
It said, “The attention of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board 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 the 362 she claimed.“She had manipulated her UTME result to deceive the public to fraudulently obtain scholarships and other recognitions.”
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