The student who has been accused by the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) of manipulating her Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) result, Miss Ejikeme Mmesoma has denied forging the result in her possession and accused the examination body of bringing trauma into her life.
In a statement on Sunday, JAMB spokesperson, Fabian Benjamin had accused the student, who has been widely celebrated and honoured for scoring 362 in the examinations to emerge as the highest for 2023 UTME of actually scoring 249 in the examination and manipulated her result for selfish gains.
Ejikeme Mmesoma, a student of Anglican Girls Secondary School, Nnewi, Anambra State, Mmesoma in a video that has gone viral explained her own side of the story, claiming innocence and accusing JAMB of traumatizing her by releasing such a statement even when the DSS are already investigating the issue.
In the video, the student was seen holding her UTME result and claimed that it was what she printed from JAMB portal. She denied forging the result in her possession.
“I am the owner of this result. I went to the JAMB portal to print this result and this is what they gave me. This is the result here. So, this is my aggregate; 362. This is exactly how I printed it.
“They now saying that I forged my result is what I don’t know and I am traumatized that they accused me of forging my own results because I am not capable of this.”
Mmesoma revealed that she had been invited by the Department of State Services (DSS) where her statement was taken and she was told that investigation was ongoing. She hinted that there must be problem with the result but it is not from her.
“There must be problem somewhere. They scanned the QR code, there and it showed another name (Omotola Afolabi 138) and that same person that got 138, they checked again and the person got 338, meaning that there is a problem somewhere.
“My principal and I went to the Commissioner of Education office last Friday. We showed the result to the commissioner of education and she snapped it and sent it to the JAMB officials. They called back saying it is a forged result, that I forged it myself that JAMB don’t have record of it.
“They called the DSS over to their office. The DSS took us to their office and we made our statement there. They said we would be contacted later after investigating the result where it came from.
“Instead of them to wait for the investigation to be over, they posted that I forged my result without confirming. I’m really sad. Since my nursery school I have been taking first. I scored over 300 in my common entrance. I’m a brilliant girl. I am not an illiterate that would forge results.”
