The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, has slammed a three-year ban on Miss Mmesoma Ejikeme, who is embroiled in the controversy of who scored the highest mark in this year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, conducted by the Board.
According to Vanguard, the board spokesman Dr. Benjamin Fabian, accused the lady of engaging in criminal act and also said the result have been cancelled.
He said “What she did was to alter a result that was obtained by somebody in the 2021 UTME. She is banned for three years from sitting for the UTME too. That result of hers, where she scored 249, has been cancelled as well,” he said on phone.
“Our results are safe and nobody has hacked into them. She only altered her results, and the QR code will always show her true result,” he added.
However, Mmesoma, in a post on her Facebook wall, denied any wrong doing.
“They are just trying to harass me and my family. After the results were released over two months ago, why is it taking them this long to say what they are saying now? Now, using the QR code is indicating another name – Omotola Afolabi – which initially showed a score of 138 and, later, 338. Somebody cannot have two different results from the same examination.
“I cannot do what they are accusing me of. I have been a brilliant girl from my Nursery School days. I scored over 300 in my common entrance examination to secondary school,” she stated.
