UTME SCORE SAGA: COMMITTEE INDICTS MMESOMA ON FORGERY

REPORTER: BEN ILECHUKWU

The committee set up by the Anambra State Government to investigate miss Mmesoma Ejikeme’s JAMB score controversy has released its findings.

According to a statement by the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Soludo, Mr. Christian Aburime, on the Committee’s findings, the results released by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board
(JAMB) with respect to the UTME score of Ejikeme Joy Mmesoma was 249.

The statement noted that the results being paraded by Ejikeme Joy Mmesoma with aggregate score of 362 was fake as buttressed by the very significant and instructive variations in the registration number, date of birth, centre name and other infractions.

It also noted that Ejikeme Joy Mmesoma admitted that she manipulated the fake results herself, using her phone.

The statement also indicated that Ejikeme Joy Mmesoma owned up in the presence of her principal, and the Education Secretary that the narration by the JAMB officials was a true and correct description of what transpired.

The statement further said that the young girl admitted to have given a manipulated result by herself unaided, using same Airtel phone Number.

According to Mmesoma, she proceeded to the cybercafé (Prisca Global Computers, Uruagu, Nnewi) where she printed the results she had manipulated.

The Committee’s efforts to ascertain the motive behind her action did not succeed as she gave no response to that question.

The statement further noted that the Committee also recommended that Ejikeme Mmesoma should immediately tender an unreserved written apology to JAMB, the School (Anglican Girls’ Secondary School, Uruagu Nnewi) and the Anambra State Government.

It also recommended that she should undergo a psychological counselling and therapy even as it warned prospective JAMB candidates to adhere strictly to guidelines, processes and procedures of the examination body.

EDITED BY CHUKWUBUIKE MADU