The Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board,(JAMB) Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, says the Board has concluded investigations on the case of Mmesoma Ejikeme’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination score.
Ejikeme was accused of fraudulently inflating her 2023 UTME score.
Oloyede made this disclosure in a transcript sent to journalists from Windhoek, Namibia saying, “The truth is that JAMB has concluded the investigation on Mmesoma’s score falsification matter.
She was not the only one caught, just that others have chosen not to go out”, he said.
The statement says “presently, there is an industry faking results and unfortunately they cannot penetrate JAMB system, reasons being that (our) system is foolproofed and we will prove it any time”.
The registrar said, most parents and some of the candidates that are being fooled are not aware that they are only being fooled.
“There is internal evidence to show that the change in Ejikeme’s scores was done with her collaboration, this is because there are certain features pertaining to her that only her knows unless she makes it available to somebody else”.
The Registrar said they couldn’t have increased her scores on her behalf.
” I had earlier spoken with a former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili, on Mmesoma’s matter, and told her that it was a high-level scam and I told her that it was a careless forgery”.
“We improved on our facilities this year, so Ejikeme and her collaborators are still living in the past, this is because we are no longer using some of the things they used in changing those results since 2021”.
Prof Oloyede added that JAMB used that pattern in 2021 and saw what happened and many of such individuals were caught as well and treated accordingly.
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