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The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB has banned Mmesoma Ejikeme from taking the exams for three years.
Ejikeme was accused of inflating her result to 362 in the just concluded UTME exam to become the highest scorer.
Following the accusation, JAMB on Tuesday in a statement banned the Anambra student from sitting for the exam for three years.
The Varsity examination body spokesperson, Fabian Benjamin disclosed in the statement cited by RocketParrot.
He said, “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 Ejikeme Joy Mmesoma, and in line with its established procedures, has withdrawn her 2023 UTME result and also barred her from sitting the Board’s examination for the next three years."
Benjamin Re-emphasized JAMB's earlier position on Ejikeme results as fake, adding that her testimony was only rewritten by the truth.
He added, "Consequently, the Board would like to reassure Nigerians that its system was neither tampered with nor compromised as 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. 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.
“To witness the unassailable position of the Board regarding this obvious falsehood, the general public is, therefore, urged to endeavor to scan the QR code on the result slip to see its actual owner before it was mutilated. It is to be noted that the QR code encapsulates the UTME result of each candidate, hence, what is on the result sheet is nothing other than the interpretation of the information on this QR code."
