THE Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has suspended Ejikeme Joy Mmesome from writing its Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, for the next three years over alleged forgery of her 2023 result.
The board insist that the result being paraded by Miss Ejikeme was forged, explaining that it had since stopped issuing Notification of Result slips after the 2021 UTME for the simple reason that candidates were falsifying them.
In a statement by the board, Head of Public Affairs and Protocol, Fabian Benjamin,reassured Nigerians that its system was neither compromised as the candidate simply falsified a copy of a result slip of a candidate named “Asimiyu Mariam Omobolanle”, who sat the UTME in 2021 and scored 138.
According to the statement, The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) disclose that its earlier position that the UTME result being paraded by Ejikeme Joy Mmesoma is patently fake still stands.
The board advised the public to note 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.
Furthermore, the public is also to note that the Board stopped issuing Notification of Result slips after the 2021 UTME for the simple reason that candidates were falsifying them. Consequently, the Board has been issuing actual UTME RESULT Slips since 2022 complete with the photograph of each candidate.
Meanwhile, the case has, therefore, being rightly handed over to relevant security agencies for thorough investigation to unravel the masterminds of yet another unfortunate scam.
