The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has reaffirmed its position that the result obtained by Miss Ejikeme Mmesoma in the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) is clearly fraudulent.
On Sunday, JAMB accused Ejikeme of fabricating her 2023 UTME result, an allegation that she has denied.
However, in a statement released on Tuesday, JAMB spokesperson Benjamin Fabian announced that the organization has invalidated her result and subsequently imposed a three-year ban on her from taking the examination.
The statement partly reads: “In the meantime, the management of the Board, after considering the weighty infraction committed by Ms Ejikeme Joy Mmesoma, and in line with its established procedures, has withdrawn her 2023 UTME result and also barred her from sitting the Board’s examination for the next three years,” the statement read.
The examination board further assured the Nigerian public that its system remained intact and was not tampered with or compromised. The candidate in question merely forged a copy of a result slip belonging to someone named “Asimiyu Mariam Omobolanle” who took the UTME in 2021 and achieved a score of 138.
“It is also instructive to note that the candidate, in her statement, has inadvertently revealed the rightful owner of the result she is parading when she pointed out that the QR code on the result slip showed the actual owner of the said result before she peddled a lie in an attempt to obfuscate the truth.”
JAMB however advised the general public to always scan the QR code to confirm the authenticity of results. “the general public is, therefore, urged to endeavour to scan the QR code on the result slip to see its actual owner before it was mutilated.”
