The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has concluded its investigations on the case of Anambra State student, Mmesoma Ejikeme, who was accused of fraudulently inflating her 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination result.
This was disclosed by the board's Registrar, Professor Ishaq Oloyede who made the disclosure on Tuesday, July 4, 2023.
"The truth is that JAMB has concluded its investigation on Mmesoma's score falsification matter; she was not the only one caught, just that others have chosen not to go out.
"Presently, there is an industry faking results, and unfortunately, they cannot penetrate the JAMB system. The reason is that the system is foolproof and we will prove it at any time.
"It is unfortunate that parents and some of the candidates who are being fooled are not aware that they have only been fooled.
"There is internal evidence to show that the change in Mmesoma's scores was done with her collaboration. There are certain features pertaining to her that only she knows, and unless she makes them available to somebody else, they couldn't have increased her scores on her behalf," Oloyede said.
The JAMB Registrar also disclosed that he earlier spoke with a former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili, on Ejikeme's matter and told her that it was a high-level scam.
JAMB had on the same Tuesday released a result slip, which it confirmed as authentic, showing that Mmesoma's score in the 2023 UTME was 249 instead of 362 which she had been parading.
JAMB's spokesperson, Fabian Benjamin, has described the result being flaunted by Mmesoma as obsolete. He also responded to a video of Mmesoma defending herself, saying someone was coaching her on what to say.
Anambra State Governor, Chukwuma Soludo, has set up a committee of inquiry into the matter, the JAMB spokesperson said the exam body wants to be a part of the process.
"We are interested. I've sent a message to the Commissioner of Education saying, 'Please invite us. We'll come up with all the facts.' And we want to appeal to Airtel to also appear because Airtel has all the communications and interactions between this candidate and JAMB on the phone.
"And if the candidate will be sincere to bring her phone, you can see those transactions, the dates are there. If you had gone further, you would have seen that, yesterday, she also printed the result," Benjamin said.
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