In a statement issued on Tuesday, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board announced that there is evidence to back their position that Mmesoma’s results could not have been manipulated without her consent.
“There are certain features pertaining to her that only she knows, and unless she makes them available to somebody else, they couldn’t have increased her scores on her behalf,” the Board’s registrar, Ishaq Oloyede, said on Tuesday.
Prof Oloyede warned that some industries are assisting students to fake their results, and in the unfortunate case of Mmesoma, they opted to use a system that the Board discontinued in 2021.
“They cannot penetrate the JAMB system. The reason is that the system is fool proof and we will prove it at any time,” he said.
“It is unfortunate that parents and some of the candidates who are being fooled are not aware that they have only been fooled.
“This is because we are no longer using some of the things they used in changing those results since 2021. We used that pattern in 2021, and you saw what happened, and many of such individuals were caught as well, and they were treated accordingly,” He added.
According to the registrar, Mmesoma’s case was not the only instance of result fraud detected by the Board in the 2023 exams.
“The truth is that JAMB has concluded its investigation on Mmesoma’s score falsification matter; she was not the only one caught, just that others have chosen not to go out,” the statement continued.
JAMB had previously said that the Mmesoma case drew attention primarily because she was one of the top-performing students in the exam and was about to get financial aid from Innosun Motors and the Anambra State Government.
The Board has recently announced that Mmesoma Ejikeme, 19, scored 249 in the 2023 UTME, disregarding her claim of 362.
“The candidate simply falsified a copy of a result slip of a candidate named ‘Asimiyu Mariam Omobolanle,’ who sat the UTME in 2021 and scored 138,” said spokesperson Fabian Benjamin.
Despite JAMB’s extensive account challenging the claim, the candidate and her parents maintain that her 362 was the result of her hard work and intelligence.
