The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has said it will withdraw the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) result of Miss Ejikeme Joy Mmesoma for allegedly inflating her original score.
The board said she scored 249 in the examination as against the 362 she has been parading.
The board said she scored 249 in the examination as against the 362 she has been parading.
JAMB announced this in a statement yesterday in Abuja by its Head of Public Affairs and Protocol, Fabian Benjamin.
The organisation said it would prosecute Miss Ejikeme for tampering with its result.
The statement said Miss Ejikeme got a N3 million scholarship from the founder of Innoson Motors, Innocent Chukwuma, for saying she scored 362 in this year’s UTME.
The board warned Nigerians to be careful of applicants parading high scores in the UTME.
The statement reads: “The attention of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has been drawn to several publications in both print and online media celebrating certain candidates for being high scorers in the 2023 UTME.
“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. In many instances, some of these candidates had actually obtained far lower scores than they are claiming and had used some funny software packages to manipulate their results to deceive unsuspecting members of the public.
“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 N3 million 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 scholarship and other recognition.
(The Nation)
