JAMB To Withdraw Result Of Self Acclaimed UTME Top Scorer As Result Was Faked

Ejikeme Joy Mmesoma, the student who was hailed as the best scorer in the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), has admitted that she fabricated her score, according to the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB).

Remember that Nkechinyere Umeh, an Anambra State native who scored 360, was recently named by JAMB as the best candidate overall for the UTME in 2023.

Mmesoma, a student at the Anglican Girls Secondary School in Nnewi, Anambra State, revealed in May that she had received a score of 362 on the UTME this year, claiming to be the exam’s top overall candidate.

Many Nigerians, including Innocent Chukwuma, the owner of Innoson Motors, who gave her a scholarship worth N3 million, had praised her supposed accomplishment.

However, a statement on Sunday by JAMB’s spokesperson, Fabian Benjamin, stated that Mmesoma faked her result and that she got 249 in the exam.

The statement added that she had manipulated her UTME result to deceive the public to fraudulently obtain scholarship and other recognitions.

It added that some other 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.

JAMB added that candidates who were caught manipulating their results would be prosecuted in due course.

“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 362 she claimed. She had manipulated her UTME result to deceive the public to fraudulently obtain scholarship and other recognitions.

‘The Board would like to state that the likes of Mmesoma are still out there deceiving those who are always in a hurry to bestow honours on candidates without confirming from the Board.

“A similar case was that of one Atung Gerald in Kaduna, who claimed to have scored 380. His ethnic group had taken the issue up requesting that he should be given special recognition only for the Board to disappoint them with the incontestable fact that Atung never obtain the 2023 UTME application documents not to talk of sitting the examination.

“The Board would, therefore, want to advise the public to always cross check these claims by candidates with the Board before rushing to honour them with undeserving awards as certain software have been created to fake their version of their results and put same out in the public space for fun and this is what the sponsors of these candidates are using to defraud good-spirited Nigerians such as Dr. Innocent, the founder of Innoson Motors, who sincerely desires to celebrate academic excellence by investing in the education of a young Nigerian.

“We commended the likes of Dr. Innocent Chukwuma and wish to encourage other Nigerians, who desire to invest in the future of genuine youngsters, never to be discouraged but to always ensure that they get the authentic results from the Board as done by the Anambra State Ministry of Education, otherwise they will be celebrating criminality as this is just another new fraudulent method in town. However, these candidates only succeed in manipulating what they are holding as the authentic results are with the Board and would be transmitted to their schools of choice at the appropriate time,” the statement said.