Disputed Anambra candidate Mmesoma Ejikeme has at last acknowledged to forging her 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination results to a panel of independent investigators appointed by the Anambra State Government.
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board’s spokesperson, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, made the report accessible to journalists in Abuja. The panel remarked that Mmesoma did not provide a justification for the fabrication.
“In Ejikeme Joy Mmesoma’s response, she admitted that the JAMB authorities’ account of what happened was factual and accurate in front of her principal and the education secretary. She also acknowledged utilizing the same phone number, the Artel, to independently provide a falsified result.
She allegedly went to the cybercafé (Prisca Global Computers, Uruagu, Nnewi) to print the results she had modified. When the Committee pressed Ejikeme Joy Mmesoma for an explanation, she remained silent.
“In their own submissions, the Principal Anglican Girls’ Secondary School, Uruagu Nnewi, and the Education Secretary – Diocese of Nnewi (Anglican Communion) expressed shock at what transpired where Mmesoma admitted having manipulated her UTME results in their presence, misleading the school, her immediate family, and the State Government.”
JAMB reportedly charged Mmesoma on Sunday with deliberately inflating her UTME score from 249 to 362. The candidate later presented herself as the top performer in the 2023 UTME, and Innoson Motors awarded her a N3 million scholarship.
Mmesoma argued that her result was legitimate despite the Board’s repeated requests, noting that she printed it from the JAMB website.
The Board imposed a three-year ban on her despite her protests, and the House of Representatives requested a stay of the decision.
Details to come…
