Ejikeme Mmesoma, a student of Anglican Girls secondary school in Nnewi, Anambra State, who was accused of forging her Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) result, has finally admitted she scored 249.
Speaking in an interview on Channels TV programme, Sunrise Daily on Wednesday, Mmesoma denied sending multiple messages to JAMB office, claiming that the only SMS she sent to JAMB was through its support system, and that there was no response to the text.
“They didn’t reply. If they check their JAMB Support System, they would see that I sent a text message. They didn’t reply. The one I checked through the USSD code is the one of 360 (sic) that I saw.
“After all said and done, I now saw that I got 249. I sent them a text message there to know what really happened — the JAMB Support System. If they go to their system, they will see it there,” she said.
Spokesman to the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, Mr. Fabian Benjamin, in a statement stated that records revealed that she had sent series of messages to the board’s automated telecoms system, including the results showing an aggregate of 362, adding that the board had insisted that the result was fake.
Consequently, Benjamin stressed that the board has decided to withdraw her original result of 249 and to bar her from writing the examination for the next three years.
The 16 year old has pleaded for leniency, even as she insisted that it was not her fault and that she did not know that the result she printed was fake. She further said that barring her from taking further examination for three years was not ‘fair’.
“It’s not my fault that I printed my result like that and they said that I forged my result. It’s not my fault. So, them banning it is not fair,” she said.
