Innoson Group, owners of Innoson Motors, says the authorities should allow children of the poor breathe in the case of allegations of UTME scores forgery levelled against Miss Mmesoma Ejikeme by the Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board (JAMB).
Recall that Ejikeme, an indigne of Anambra state, recently paraded herself as the top scorer in the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) which saw Innocent Chukwuma, Innoson Motors’ founder, honouring her and awarding her N3 million scholarship up the the university.
However, JAMB in a statement on Sunday, accused Ejikeme of manually inflating her UTME result from 249 to 362 and used her inflated score to attract the N3m scholarship recognition from Innoson Motors.
JAMB noted that Ejikeme was set to be awarded by the Anambra State Government before she was exposed, vowing that the candidate will be prosecuted and have her original result withdrawn by the board.
“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.
“She was even set to be honoured by the Anambra State Government when one of its top officials put a call through to JAMB to confirm her claim only for the Board to reveal that Miss Ejikeme Joy Mmesoma had actually scored 249 and not 362 she claimed.
“She had manipulated her UTME result to deceive the public to fraudulently obtain a scholarship and other recognitions,” the statement by JAMB said.
Reacting via his official Twitter handle, Head of Corporate Communications, Innoson Group, Mr Cornel Osigwe, asked that the poor should be allowed to breathe, even as he called for an investigation into the case.
“The girl I met doesn’t have the brain and capacity to manipulate her result. There is more to this story. A proper investigation needs to be done. Abeg let the poor breath.
“That girl was one of the most brilliant in her school, according to the Principal, her parents couldn’t even afford to pay for her WAEC and NECO Exams. Of what advantage will it offer her to manipulate her JAMB score? Let the poor breathe pls,” he tweeted.
