The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) on Tuesday, July 4, 2023, said that it has barred an Anambra State candidate, Mmesoma Ejikeme for three years over alleged forgery of UTME results.
In a statement made available on Tuesday morning by the Board’s spokesman, Fabian Benjamin, JAMB insisted that only Mmesoma paraded an “obsolete” notification slip out of all the candidates that sat the 2023 UTME.
“Consequently, the Board would like to reassure Nigerians that its system was neither tampered with nor compromised as the candidate simply falsified 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 instructive to note that the candidate, in her statement, has inadvertently revealed the rightful owner of the result she is parading when she pointed out that the QR code on the result slip showed the actual owner of the said result before she peddled a lie in an attempt to obfuscate the truth.
“To witness the unassailable position of the Board regarding this obvious falsehood, the general public is, therefore, urged to endeavour to scan the QR code on the result slip to see its actual owner before it was mutilated. It is to be noted that the QR code encapsulates the UTME result of each candidate, hence, what is on the result sheet is nothing other than the interpretation of the information on this QR code.
“Furthermore, the public is also to note that the Board stopped issuing Notification of Result slips after the 2021 UTME for the simple reason that candidates were falsifying them. Consequently, the Board has been issuing actual UTME RESULT Slips (not notification of results ) since 2022 complete with the photograph of each candidate.
“Similarly, the public is also invited to ponder on the fact that out of all the candidates that sat the 2023 UTME, only Ms. Ejikeme Mmesoma parades the obsolete ‘Notification of Result.
“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 Ejikeme Joy Mmesoma, and in line with its established procedures, has withdrawn her 2023 UTME result and also barred her from sitting the Board’s examination for the next three years.”
It would be recalled that Mmesoma spoke in a trending video posted on various twitter account and other social media platforms, saying she was traumatised by the JAMB media sponsorship against her, that she forged her UTME results.
Reacting to the JAMB’s forgery claims, Mmesoma vehemently denied the forgery claim, insisting that she printed the results from the JAMB Portal.
She queried that if she forged the results that was printed from the JAMB Portal, did she also forge the JAMB text message to her that corroborated the results she later printed.
Mmesoma stated in the trending video, “My name is Ejikeme Mmesoma, I am the owner of this result (holding the print out of the disputed JAMB score). I went to JAMB Portal to print this result and this is what they gave me and this is the result here. These are my aggregate 362 and this is exactly how I printed it after downloaded from that site.”
