The Anambra student Ejikeme Mmesoma who the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) charged with faking her UTME (Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination) result for 2023 has refuted the charges.
This was announced on Monday by Mmesoma, a pupil at the Anglican Girls Secondary School in Nnewi, Anambra State.
“I am the owner of this result. I went to JAMB portal to print this result and this is what they gave me. This is my aggregate, 362. This is exactly how I printed it out and downloaded from the site,” she said.
“So, the fact that they are now saying I forged the result is what I don’t know. I am traumatised that they accused me of forging my own result. This is because I am not capable of forging my own result.
On Sunday, JAMB accused her of faking her results in order to deceive the public and fraudulently win a scholarship and other awards.
The board reported Mmesoma’s exam result as 249 as opposed to the 362 she claimed to have received.
The student and those who allegedly falsified their scores will be prosecuted in due time, according to JAMB.
A commission had already been established by the Anambra state government to look into the dispute surrounding the student’s results.
Mmesoma demonstrated in the video how her physical test results support the high grade she received.
“This is the evidence. They said that I forged my result. They can scanned this QR code then and it showed another name. A Yoruba name, Omotola Afolabi, 138. And that same person that scored 138, they checked again, the person score 338. Meaning that there is problem somewhere,” Mmesoma said.
“And we went to the commissioner of education office last week Friday, with my principal and the educational secretary of Anglican Secondary school girls of Anglican Diocese. So, we went there and showed this result to the commissioner of education. She snapped it and sent it to the JAMB officials.
“They called back and said this is a forged result that I forged it myself. That the JAMB office don’t have the record of this.
“They now said that I forged it and called the DSS over. The DSS took us to their office and we made our statements there and said they will contact us later that they are going to investigate this result to know where the source came from.
“So instead of them to wait for the investigation to be over, they posted that I forged d the result without confirming. I am really sad about it.
“Since my nursery school, I have been taking first. It’s not that I am an illiterate girl to go and forge my result because I’m not intelligent to impress people.
“Even my common entrance it was three hundred and something.”
