The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has said it will prosecute one Ejikeme Mmesoma for allegedly inflating her score from 249 to 362 in the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, thus parading herself as the 2023 UTME top scorer.
The examination body said it also uncovered one Atung Gerald from Kaduna State, who never sat the exam, but claimed to have scored 380.
In a statement on Sunday by its spokesman, Dr Fabian Benjamin, JAMB said it found the case of Mmesoma particularly pathetic as she had allegedly hoodwinked unspecting members of the public, including businessman, Chief Innocent Chukwuma, who offered her N3m in scholarship, while a state honour was being planned to celebrate her.
The JAMB spokesperson said, “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.
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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced its intention to prosecute an individual named Ejikeme Mmesoma for allegedly inflating her score in the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). Mmesoma purportedly increased her score from 249 to 362, falsely presenting herself as the top scorer for the UTME in 2023.
JAMB also revealed another case involving Atung Gerald from Kaduna State, who never actually sat for the exam but claimed to have scored 380.
In a statement released by Dr. Fabian Benjamin, the spokesperson for JAMB, it was mentioned that Mmesoma’s case was particularly disheartening as she deceived unsuspecting members of the public. She reportedly fooled Chief Innocent Chukwuma, a businessman who offered her a N3 million scholarship, and even a state honor was being planned to celebrate her achievements.
JAMB emphasized that many of the high scores being celebrated by certain candidates in the media are fraudulent. These candidates allegedly obtained much lower scores than they are claiming and manipulated their results using software packages to deceive the public.
