The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, on Sunday, said it would pull out the consequence of a specific Ejikeme Mmesoma for physically swelling her outcome and declaring herself as the top scorer for the 2023 Brought together Tertiary Registration Assessment.
The board said in a statement that Ejikeme used her manually inflated score to get a N3 million scholarship from Innoson Motors. Before she was found out, the Anambra State government was going to give her the scholarship.
“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.”
The board also said in the statement that it found another fraudulent candidate who claimed to have scored a 380 aggregate in the most recent UTME.
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