The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, says Ejikeme Mmesoma, a 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, candidate who gained popularity for allegedly scoring 362 in this year’s UTME manipulated her result
To celebrate Mmesoma and motivate other students to be studious, Innocent Chukwuma, founder of Innoson Motors, awarded a N3 million scholarship to her.
However, in a statement on Sunday, Fabian Benjamin, the Board’s head of media and publicity, said Mmesoma used “some funny software packages” to manipulate her UTME result to “deceive the public to fraudulently obtain a scholarship and other recognitions.”
The statement reads, “The board is constrained to set the records straight and wishes to state unequivocally that many of the results which many of these candidates are parading are fake.
“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.”
JAMB explained that Mmesoma “sent a message to the Board’s platform to request her UTME result after which she manually inflated her scores and pasted the same on the 2022 UTME result sheet. Unknown to her, the Board had changed the design of the 2023 UTME result sheet.”
Benjamin revealed that the candidate’s original UTME score is 249 and not 362 as she claimed, adding that “nothing can change that.”
JAMB said that Mmesoma will be prosecuted and her original result withdrawn, noting that all candidates who sat for the 2023 UTME parading inflated scores will be investigated and prosecuted.
“With this her ignoble act, Miss Mmesoma would be prosecuted and her original result withdrawn,” the statement reads.
“This is not all as the Board would, in due course, investigate all candidates laying claims to higher scores than they actually obtained. Once discovered, such candidates’ original results would be withdrawn forthwith and they would be handed over to relevant security agencies for prosecution.”
While noting that “the likes of Mmesoma are still out there deceiving those who are always in a hurry to bestow honours on candidates without confirming from the Board”, the Board advised Nigerians “who desire to invest in the future of genuine youngsters never to be discouraged but to always ensure that they get the authentic results from the Board…otherwise, they will be celebrating criminality as this is just another new fraudulent method in town.”
Meanwhile, on June 24, JAMB declared Nkechinyere Umeh, a 16-year-old student of Deeper Life High School in Mowe, Ogun State as the overall top scorer in the 2023 UTME.
Umeh, a native of Anambra State, scored 360 on the exam.
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