Joint Admissions and Matriculation Boar
JAMB penalizes Mmesoma. Mmesoma Ejikeme, an Anambra student suspected of fabricating her 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination score, has been barred from sitting the board’s examinations for three years, according to the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board.
The board also stated that the Anambra student falsified her results, noting that it conducted extensive investigations before reaching its determination.
Fabian Benjamin, JAMB’s spokesperson, revealed this in a statement issued on Tuesday.
He said, “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 Ejikeme Joy Mmesoma, and in line with its established procedures, has withdrawn her 2023 UTME result and also barred her from sitting the Board’s examination for the next three years.
Benjamin repeated the board’s previous opinion that the UTME result presented by Ejikeme Joy Mmesoma was a forgery, saying the contestants’ statement was an attempt to re-write history.
“As a result, the Board wishes to reassure Nigerians that its system was not tampered with or compromised because the candidate simply faked 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 worth noting that the candidate unwittingly revealed the rightful owner of the result she is displaying when she stated that the QR code on the result slip revealed the genuine owner of the said result before she sold a lie in an interview.
“To see the Board’s unassailable position on this obvious falsehood, the general public is urged to scan the QR code on the result slip to see its actual owner before it was mutilated.” It should be remembered that the QR code encompasses each candidate’s JAMB result; thus, what appears on the result sheet is nothing more than the interpretation of the information on this QR code.
“Furthermore, the public should be aware that the Board discontinued issuing Notification of Result slips following the 2021 UTME due to candidates falsifying them.” As a result, the Board has been providing actual JAMB RESULT Slips (not notification of results) since 2022, complete with each candidate’s photograph,” he explained.
Concerning the negative publicity caused by the entire incident, Benjamin stated that the board was unconcerned because such dishonest assertions were not made for the first time.
He recalled an incident in 2021 in which a candidate, John Chinedu Ifesinachi, wrote a letter to the Board threatening to sue for N2 billion in damages, only for him and his counsel to tender an unreserved apology when the candidate eventually confessed his crime in the face of incontrovertible facts in an open investigation observed by several national public institutions including the Public Complaints Commission, National Human Rights Commission, Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, and Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission
Meanwhile, the board regretted the different coloration supplied by some “unwholesome” interests determined to lead the candidate to a catastrophic conclusion, encouraging those doing so to recant their statements.
“Another terrifying aspect of the unfolding drama is the unwholesome interest of some nefarious elements, who, for all intents and purposes, are determined to goad the candidate down this unproductive path, as any casual observer would notice with the obviously stage-managed video aired by Ms. Ejikeme.” The Board advises these perplexists to reconsider, as their nefarious schemes will soon be exposed.”
“Again, the Board restates its readiness for genuine scrutiny as this case would not be the first time and might not even be the last of such shenanigans. At the end of the day, the truth would manifest and the Board vindicated.
“In the meantime, the management of the Board urges members of the public to examine critically the issue at