UTME Fraud Allegation: ‘Brilliant’ Anambra girl denies forging result

Anambra girl, Mmesoma Ejikeme, who was accused of forging the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination has denied of the allegation.

She spoke in a video on Monday which has gone viral and sighted by CAPITAL POST in Abuja, insisting that she didn’t forge the result as claimed by the examination body.

Mmesoma reacted to earlier allegation by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, saying that she manually upgraded her result from 249 to 362.

The examination body said on Sunday that the young candidate did that to attract a scholarship of N3 million from Innoson Motors and was set to be awarded by the Anambra state government before she was exposed.

Jamb described the situation as most pathetic, given that Miss Ejikeme Joy Mmesoma, was set to be given a scholarship by the Chairman of Innoson Motors, Dr. Innocent Chukwuma after she claimed to have scored 362 in the 2023 UTME and was set to be awarded a scholarship.

“Miss Ejikeme Joy Mmesoma had actually scored 249 and not 362 she claimed. She had manipulated her UTME result to deceive the public to fraudulently obtain a scholarship and other recognitions,” a statement by JAMB said.

In her reaction, Ejikeme said, “My name is Ejikeme Mmesoma. I’m the owner of this result. I went to the JAMB portal to print this result and this is the result they gave me. This is my aggregate, 362.

“They scan the QR code on my result and it showed a Yoruba name — Omotola Afolabi who scored 138.

“The same Omotola scored 338 when it was rechecked and this evidence showed that there is a problem.

This is exactly how I printed and downloaded it from their site. So saying that I forged my result is what I don’t know and I am traumatised that they accused me of forging my results because I’m not capable of forging my result,” she added.

She however stressed that both JAMB and DSS when informed did not carry out their investigation on the matter before the board concluded that she forged her result.

The spokesperson of JAMB, Dr. Fabian Benjamin is yet to react to the video at the time of filing this report.