As penalty for allegedly forging her 2023 UTME results, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has barred Mmesoma Ejikeme from taking part in Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) for three years.
It was earlier reported that Ejikeme became recognized after announcing that she had received the highest score in the UTME for 2023. She garnered popularity and received a scholarship offer from a reputable company and several Nigerians.
The Anambra State candidate’s claims have been refuted by JAMB, who cites her “real UMTE score.”
Only Mmesoma, out of all the candidates who took the 2023 UTME, showed an “obsolete” notification slip, according to a statement released by the Board’s spokesman, Fabian Benjamin, on Tuesday morning.
“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 for 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 Ejikeme Joy Mmesoma, and in line with its established procedures, has withdrawn her 2023 UTME result and also barred her from sitting the Board’s examination for the next three years.”
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