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Anambra student who won multimillion-naira scholarship from Innoson used software to increase her UTME score: JAMB

Ejikeme Joy Mmesoma was scheduled to be honoured at a public ceremony by Anambra State Government before Charles Soludo’s administration learnt her claim was fraudulent.

• July 2, 2023
Ejikeme Joy Mmesoma
Ejikeme Joy Mmesoma (Credit: NewsWireNGR)

The Joint Admissions Matriculation Board has announced that Ejikeme Joy Mmesoma, a student in Anambra who was widely hailed as the best candidate in 2023, manipulated her score to defraud the public. 

This was disclosed in a statement by Fabian Benjamin, JAMB’s spokesperson, on Sunday.

“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 statement said.

“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 Innocent Chukwuma. 

The statement added that “Mmesoma 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 the 362 she claimed. She had manipulated her UTME result to deceive the public to fraudulently obtain scholarships and other recognitions.”

According to JAMB, the board is constrained to set the records straight and wishes to state unequivocally that many of the results that 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.

While warning the public not to rush in honouring fraudsters who manipulate JAMB score to defraud innocent people, JAMB said Ms “Mmesoma would be prosecuted and her original result withdrawn.”

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