After days of blatant denial, Ejikeme Mmesoma has admitted that she manipulated her Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) result.
TheHintsNews reports that Mmesoma had claimed that she was the highest scorer in the 2023 exam.
But the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) countered Mmesoma, an Anambra pupil, insisting that she manually inflated her result.
Consequently, the examination body banned Mmesoma from sitting the Board’s examination for the next three years.
However, Mmesoma in a viral video released last Monday insisted that she was not capable of such.
Report of Fact-finding Committee
Nevertheless, the report of a fact-funding committee revealed that Mmesoma scored 249 as against 362 she claimed to have scored.
The report reads: “JAMB revealed the different times that Ejikeme Joy Mmesoma made several requests to JAMB portal asking for her results at different hours, and each of these times (four in number), she received in her phone, same results from JAMB indicating candidate’s UTME Results to wit: Eng: 64, Phy:54, Bio: 74, Che: 57 with a total aggregate score of 249.
“JAMB disclosed that the candidate was well informed of her correct score from JAMB. Ejikeme Joy Mmesoma had sent a request to JAMB with a different registration number showing a UTME result of aggregate score of ‘ 362, with Eng: 98, Phy: 89, Bio: 94, and Che: 81.
“The results she sent differed substantially from the standard JAMB format where she got an appropriate rebuttal stating her real score of 249. Besides, a number of red-flags was also highlighted by JAMB officials showing a different date of birth, different Registration Number, Notification of results template that has been discarded since 2021, amongst others.
“It was also evident that even the centre name “Nkemefuna Foundation (Thomas Chidoka Centre for Human Development as it was known before now) used for the examination was also manipulated where the candidate used the old name of the centre (Thomas Chidoka Centre for Human Development) in her own manipulated result sheet.
“In Ejikeme Joy Mmesoma’s submission, she owned up in the presence of her principal, and the Education Secretary that the narration by the JAMB officials was a true and correct description of what transpired. She also admitted to have given a manipulated result by herself unaided, using same phone Airtel Number.
“According to her, she proceeded to the cybercafé (Prisca Global Computers, , Uruagu, Nnewi) where she printed the results she had manipulated. The Committee tried to find out the motive behind her action, but Ejikeme Joy Mmesoma said nothing.”
The committee confirmed that the results paraded by Mmesoma with aggregate score of 362 is fake as buttressed by the very significant and instructive variations in the registration number, date of birth, centre name and other infractions
It added: “Epkeme Joy Mmesoma admitted that she manipulated the fake results herself, using her phone.’
The committee recommended that Mmesoma should tenderan unreserved written apology to JAMB, the School (Anglican Girls’ Secondary School, Uruagu Nnewi) and the Anambra State Government This should be done immediately
It also recommended that Mmesoma should undergo psychological counseling and therapy.