The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, on Sunday declares Ejikeme Mmesoma, a student who paraded herself as the top scorer in the 2023 UTME by manually inflating her result from 249 to 362 a fraud, set to prosecute and have her result withdrawn.
According to a statement issued by the board, Ejikeme used her manually inflated score to attract a N3million scholarship from Innoson Motors and was set to be honoured by the Anambra State government before she was exposed.
“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 many 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.”
JAMB in her statement also noted that it identified the case of another fraudulent candidate who claimed to have scored a 380 aggregate score in the last 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.
