The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has imposed a three-year ban on Anambra pupil, Mmesoma Ejikeme from writing the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) and withdrawn her 2023 result.
This follows a viral video in which Ms. Ejikeme defended herself and displayed her result in a slip.
Spokesman of JAMB, Dr Fabian Benjamin said in a statement on Tuesday morning that JAMB stopped using the slip being paraded by Ejikeme in 2021.
The board also reiterated its position that the UTME result paraded by “Ejikeme Joy Mmesoma is patently fake.”
The statement said, “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 Ejikeme Joy Mmesoma, and in line with its established procedures, has withdrawn her 2023 UTME result and also barred her from sitting the Board’s examination for the next three years.”
Billionaire businessman, Innocent Chukwuma had earlier awarded the pupil a scholarship worth N3m before the results became suspect.
Her father, Romanus Ejikeme, had accused JAMB of awarding his daughter’s result to someone else. He insists that the girls have always received excellent grades in school.
TheNewsMatrics reports that social media has been awash with revelations about various syndicates that milk desperate UTME candidates of millions of naira by offering result “upgrade” services via whatsapp chat groups and apps.
Some of them charge up to N37,000 to “upgrade” UTME scores above the 300 mark regardless of the candidates’ initial scores.
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