The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has declared as fake the result of a student from Anambra State, Ejikeme Mmesoma, who claimed to have scored 362 in the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
JAMB in a statement on Sunday disclosed that Mmesoma’s real score was 249 but she used a software to manually manipulate her results with which she had been able to attract a N3 million scholarship from Innoson Motors and was set to be honored by the Anambra State government before she was exposed.
The Board announced that as a punishment for her actions, the student’s result would be withdrawn and she would be prosecuted.
“The attention of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board 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 some 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 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 the 362 she claimed. She had manipulated her UTME result to deceive the public to fraudulently obtain scholarships and other recognitions”.
In a similar development, JAMB further disclosed that it has taken action on the case of another fraudulent candidate from Kaduna State who claimed to have scored a 380 aggregate score in the last UTME.
Upon investigation when his ethnic group demanded a special recognition for him, JAMB said the student identified as Atung Gerald never sat for the 2023 UTME.
“A similar case was that of one Atung Gerald in Kaduna, who claimed to have scored 380. His ethnic group had taken the issue up, requesting that he be given special recognition, only for the Board to disappoint them with the incontestable fact that Atung never obtained the 2023 UTME application documents, not to talk of sitting the examination.
“The Board would, therefore, want to advise the public to always cross check these claims by candidates with the Board before rushing to honour them with undeserving awards, as certain software has been created to fake their version of their results and put same out in the public space for fun, and this is what the sponsors of these candidates are using to defraud good-spirited Nigerians such as Dr. Innocent, the founder of Innoson Motors, who sincerely desires to celebrate academic excellence.
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