The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), says it has banned Ms. Ejikeme Mmesoma from sitting the Board’s examination for the next three years.
TheHintsNews reports that the examination body had accused Mmesoma, an Anambra pupil for inflating her result.
However, Mmesoma in a viral video released on Monday insisted that she was not capable of such.
But the Ag. Director, PAP, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, in a statement issued Tuesday said the Board would like to reassure Nigerians that its system was neither tampered with nor compromised as the candidate simply falsified a copy of a result slip of a candidate named “Asimiyu Mariam Omobolanle”, who sat the UTME in 2021 and scored 138.
The Board said It was also instructive to note that the candidate, in her statement, has inadvertently revealed the rightful owner of the result she is parading when she pointed out that the QR code on the result slip showed the actual owner of the said result before she peddled a lie in an attempt to obfuscate the truth.
It added that to witness the unassailable position of the Board regarding this obvious falsehood, the general public is, therefore, urged to endeavour to scan the QR code on the result slip to see its actual owner before it was mutilated.
The Board added that the QR code encapsulates the UTME result of each candidate, hence, what is on the result sheet is nothing other than the interpretation of the information on this QR code.
The Board pointed out that it stopped issuing Notification of Result slips after the 2021 UTME for the simple reason that candidates were falsifying them.
It said, consequently, the Board has been issuing actual UTME RESULT Slips (not notification of results ) since 2022 complete with the photograph of each candidate.
It said: “Again, the Board restates its readiness for genuine scrutiny as this case would not be the first time and might not even be the last of such shenanigans. At the end of the day, the truth would manifest and the Board vindicated.
“In the meantime, the management of the Board urges member of the public to examine critically the issue at hand and avoid fake news trafficking.
“In the meantime, the management of the Board, “after considering the weighty infraction committed by Ms. Ejikeme Joy Mmesoma, and in line with it’s established procedures, has withdrawn her 2023 UTME result and also barred her from sitting the Board’s examination for the next three years.”
“Similarly, the public is also invited to ponder on the fact that out of all the candidates that sat the 2023 UTME, only Ms. Ejikeme Mmesoma parades the obsolete ‘Notification of Result.
“The Board remains unperturbed by this unfortunate development as this is not the first time such fraudulent claims have been made.
“As such, Nigerians are urged to recall numerous occasions where the Board was sued for billions of naira only for the lawyers to later apologise profusely for their clients’ misadventure.”