The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB says it has internal evidence to show that the UTME results being paraded by Miss Ejikeme Joy Mmesome is fake.
The board also said that there are evidences that revealed that Miss Ejikeme’s scores was increased with assistance of collaborators following the engagement of special features deployed in changing her result.
Jamb says the features are only known by Miss Ejikeme.
The Registrar of JAMB, Professor Ishaq Oloyede made these known to Voice of Nigeria Education Correspondent in Windhoek, Namibia while speaking on Fake Jamb High Scorers decieving good spirited Nigerians: the case of Ejikeme Joy Mmesoma & Dr Innocent Chukwuma.
Professor Oloyede affirmed that any further investigation on the Ejikeme’s result falsification saga will reveal that the result is a forgery and a careless forgery.
The JAMB Registrar added that the board discovered the irregularities through it changed pattern and improved facilities this year in the conduct of the exams and the features of it’s UTME results for year 2023.
“The truth is that JAMB has concluded investigation on mmesoma’s score falsification matter, she was not the only one caught just that others have chosen not to go out,” Professor Oloyede said.
“Presently there is an industry faking results and unfortunately they cannot penetrate jamb system reasons being that Jamb system is full proofed and we will prove it any time. It is unfortunate that parents and some of the candidates that are being fooled are not aware that they are only been fooled.
“There is internal evidence to show that the change in Ejikeme’s scores was done with her collaboration. There are certain features pertaining to her that only her knows unless she makes it available to somebody else they couldn’t have increased her scores on her behalf.”
The Registrar disclosed that he earlier spoke with Mrs Oby Ezekwesili on Ejikeme’s matter, and told her that it was a high level scam.
“We improved on our facilities this year so Ejikeme and her collaborators were still living in the past ,I spoke with Mrs Ezekwesili on the matter and I told her that it is a high level scam and I told her that it was a careless forgery.
“Because we are no longer using some of the things they used in changing that 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 recalled that in 2021, the board was confronted with an individual who sued the organisation for N2b over similar matter.
Oloyede said that the Human Rights Commission, Federal Character commission and many lawyers were involved but in the end they all apologized over the case of 2021.
3Years Ban
When Professor Oloyede was asked on his position on the three years ban on Ejikeme Joy Mmesoma, he declined further comment and said the board is not speaking further on that.
Recall that the Director Media of JAMB, Dr Fabian Benjamin, urged the public to scan the QR code on the result slip of Ejikeme 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,” he said.
The statement further called on the public to ponder on “the fact” that out of all the candidates that sat for the 2023 UTME, only Ms. Ejikeme Mmesoma parades the obsolete ‘Notification of Result.’
Recall that the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board stopped issuing Notification of Result slips after the 2021 UTME.
JAMB has however barred Ms. Ejikeme Joy Mmesoma from sitting for the Board’s examination for the next three years.
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