Mmesoma Ejikeme, a student of Anglican Girls Secondary School, Nnewi, Anambra State, accused of forging her Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination result by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has reacted to the allegation.
It will be recalled that JAMB disclosed in a statement on Sunday that Ejikeme inflated her UTME result from 249 to 362.
She was accused of manually inflating her score to attract a N3 million scholarship from Innoson Motors and was set to be awarded by the Anambra State Government before she was exposed.
JAMB said in the statement by its spokesman, Dr. Fabian Benjamin: “The most pathetic of them all is the case of Miss Ejikeme Joy Mmesoma, who claimed to have scored 362 in the 2023 UTME and was awarded a N3m scholarship by Chief (Dr.) Innocent Chukwuma.
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“She was even set to be honoured by the Anambra State Government when one of its top officials put a call through to JAMB to confirm her claim only for the Board to reveal that Miss Ejikeme Joy Mmesoma had actually scored 249 and not 362 she claimed.
“She had manipulated her UTME result to deceive the public to fraudulently obtain a scholarship and other recognitions.”
Speaking in a video that has gone viral on social media on Monday, Ejikeme said she is surprised that a result she printed out from the JAMB portal could be termed fake by the exam body.
The student, who repeatedly said that she is not capable of such, further disclosed that she is traumatised by the claim.
She said: “I am the owner of this result.
“I went to JAMB portal to print this result and this is what they gave me.
“This is the result here.
“This is my aggregate, 362.
“This is exactly how I downloaded it from that site.
“So, they (JAMB) now saying I forged my result is what I don’t know; and I’m traumatised that they accused me of forging my own result.
“I am not capable of forging results.
“This is the evidence.
“The QR code on the result was scanned and it showed another name, a Yoruba name, Omotola Afolabi, 138.
“That same person that got 138, they checked again and the person scored 338, meaning that there is problem somewhere.
“We showed this result to the Commissioner of Education, both this one and the SMS they sent to me.
“So, she snapped it and sent to the JAMB officials.
“They called back, saying that this was a forged result, that I forged it myself, that the JAMB office doesn’t have a record of this.
“They called the DSS (Department of State Servies) over to come to her office.
“The DSS took us to their office and we made our statement there.
“The DSS said they would contact us later, that they are going to investigate this result to know where it came from.
“Instead of them (JAMB) to wait for the investigation to be over, they posted that I forged without confirming.
“I’m really really sad about it.”
Ejikeme concluded by stating that she has been a brilliant student from her primary school days and can’t forge results to impress anybody.
She said: “Since my nursery school, I have been taking first positions because I am a brilliant girl.
“It is not like I am an illiterate person that will forge her result to impress people.
“Even my Common Entrance Examination, I got 300 and something.
“So, it didn’t start today.”
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