JAMB Bars Anambra Girl From Sitting For JAMB For 3 Years Over Fake Result

The Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board (JAMB) has said it stopped using the print-out currently being paraded by embattled Anambra student, Ejikeme Mmesoma as her authentic result in 2021.

JAMB stated this in a statement issued by its Spokesman, Fabian Benjamin, to newsmen on Tuesday.

It maintained that the UTME result paraded by “Ejikeme Joy Mmesoma is patently fake.”

In the statement, JAMB insisted that only Mmesoma paraded the“obsolete” notification slip out of all the candidates that sat the 2023 UTME.

“Consequently, 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.

“It is 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.

“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. It is to be noted 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.

“Furthermore, the public is also to note that the Board stopped issuing Notification of Result slips after the 2021 UTME for the simple reason that candidates were falsifying them. Consequently, the Board has been issuing actual UTME RESULT Slips (not notification of results ) since 2022 complete with the photograph of each candidate.

“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.

“In the meantime, the management of the Board, after considering the weighty infraction committed by Ms. Ejikeme Joy Mmesoma, and in line with its established procedures, has withdrawn her 2023 UTME result and also barred her from sitting the Board’s examination for the next three years.”

Meanwhile, Kanyi Daily earlier reported that Ejikeme Mmesoma on Monday denied the allegation of result forgery against her by the board.

The board on Sunday night accused Mmesoma of inflating her result and announcing herself as the top scorer for the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).

The exam body said the 16-year-old student, who was widely celebrated for scoring the highest mark of 362 in the UTME, actually scored 249 in the just-concluded exam.

Reacting to the allegations in a video, the Anambra student expressed surprise that a result she reportedly printed out from the JAMB portal could be termed by the examination board as fake.

She said she has been traumatised by the allegation raised by JAMB and narrated how Department of State Services (DSS) operatives arrested her and took her statement.

In other news, the Innoson Group also reacted to the allegation of certificate forgery against Ejikeme by JAMB that she inflated her result and announced herself as the top scorer for the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination.

Innoson Head of Corporate Communications, Cornel Osigwe called for an investigation into the allegations.

Osigwe in a post via his official Twitter handle argued that Ejikeme does not have the brain and capacity to manipulate her result.

Innoson had earlier offered the student a three-million naira scholarship for her exceptional academic feat.