Anambra State candidate, Ejikeme Mmesoma accused of forging her Unified Tertiary and Matriculation Examination (UTME) has denied the allegation leveled against her.
In a statement dated Sunday, July 2, 2023, the Joint Admissions Matriculation Board (JAMB) had alleged that the student manually increased her UTME score from 249 to 362.
The examination body alleged that Mmesoma used the result manipulation to win a three million scholarship from Innoson Motors.
JAMB’s statement had read:
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“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.”
Responding to the allegations leveled against him, Mmesoma said in a viral video released on Monday, July 3, 2023, that she cannot fake her UTME results.
According to her, her score of 362 was downloaded from the JAMB website.
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“My name is Ejikeme Mmesoma. I’m the owner of this result. I went to the JAMB portal to print this result and this is the result they gave me. This is my aggregate, 362.
“They scan the QR code on my result and it showed a Yoruba name — Omotola Afolabi who scored 138.
“The same Omotola scored 338 when it was rechecked and this evidence showed that there is a problem.
“This is exactly how I printed and downloaded it from their site. So saying that I forged my result is what I don’t know and I am traumatised that they accused me of forging my results because I’m not capable of forging my result.”
Meanwhile, the management of Innoson Motors has asked the JAMB to probe into the matter.
