By Adadareporters
The Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board (JAMB), Tuesday, said it had banned Mmesoma Ejikeme, the examination candidate who allegedly inflated her exam scores, from writing its exams for three years. The teen, from Anambra State, has however said her result was genuine, insisting that she is brilliant.
JAMB made this known in a statement signed by its spokesperson, Fabian Benjamin.
The statement read, “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.
“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.’
“The board remains unperturbed by this unfortunate development as this is not the first time such fraudulent claims have been made. As such, Nigerians are urged to recall numerous occasions where the Board was sued for billions of naira only for the lawyers to later apologise profusely for their clients’ misadventure.”
The board added that it had barred her from sitting the examination for the next three years, in line with its established procedures, and had withdrawn her 2023 UTME result.
According to JAMB, the case has been handed over to security agencies for proper investigation, adding that “the truth would manifest and the Board vindicated.”
