He maintained his stand that high grades did not always represent academic ingenuity, while low scores in some cases don’t necessarily imply poor academic standard of a candidate
Browsing: Mmesoma Ejikeme
The Anambra State Government says it has handed over 19-year-old Mmesoma Ejikeme, who forged the result of her Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination organised by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, to a psychotherapist for a three-month guidance and counselling
Mmesoma, who is from a poor background in Anambra State, claimed that she scored 362 marks in the examination.
Only on Friday, an Anambra State Government committee of enquiry revealed that she indeed faked the result.
In the report of the panel which was made available on Saturday, Mmesoma confessed to having forged her results unaided.
This was the major highlight of the report of a panel set up by Governor Chukwuma Soludo to probe the raging issue
According to information available to The Eagle Online, the report is expected to be released any moment from now.
For a young adult with a promising future, the emerging facts only suggest one thing: it doesn’t rain, it pours.
The former Minister, who owns the CBT centre where Ejikeme wrote the examination, spoke on Wednesday in a statement.
Chidoka, who is also the owner of the Computer-Based Testing (CBT) Centre where Mmesoma sat for her examination, said he will beg the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) for leniency if the candidate come clean with her result source.
According to Okebukola, discrediting the effort of the examination body can be detrimental to the growth of the entire education system.
Many natives of the South West were also accused of result fraud, and some centres in that geopolitical zone were shut down. Yet nobody from the South West defended them.
Despite her engagement with the JAMB boss, Ezekwesili reiterated that there is need for an Independent Technology Investigation, to unravel the truth of the case, including the role of all the parties involved, so that the right and just redressing can be made.
Oloyede made this disclosure in a transcript sent to our correspondent from Windhoek, Namibia.
The Board has also barred the Anambra State student from sitting for its examination for the next three year
Ezekwesili made the demand in a post on her Twitter handle on Monday as the controversy continued to rage,
This is contained in a statement by the Head, Public Affairs and Protocol, JAMB, Dr Fabian Benjamin, and made available to newsmen in Abuja on Sunday.