The panel of inquiry set up by the Anambra State Government has confirmed that Mmesoma Ejikeme manipulated her Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination result, where she actually scored 249 as against 362 she projected.
Confirming this on Saturday, the eight-page report of the panel maintained that the result paraded by Ejikeme Joy Mmesoma with an aggregate score of 362 was fake as buttressed by the very significant and instructive variations in the registration number, date of birth, centre name and other infractions.
The report added that Ejikeme Joy Mmesoma admitted that she manipulated the fake results herself, using her phone.
The panel pointed out that it conducted interviews with relevant parties, including Mmesoma, JAMB officials and other individual(s) involved in the process as well as the principal of Anglican Girls Secondary School, explaining that, Mmesoma had sent a request to JAMB with a different registration number showing a UTME result of an aggregate score of 362, with Eng: 98, Phy: 89, Bio: 94, and Che: 81 which differed substantially from the standard JAMB format where she got an appropriate rebuttal stating her real score of 249.
The Panel has however recommended that Mmesoma immediately tender an unreserved written apology to the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, the school (Anglican Girls’ Secondary School, Uruagu Nnewi), and the state government and should undergo psychological counselling and therapy.
Recall that the panel was earlier set up by the Anambra state governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, on Wednesday to investigate the ongoing controversy between the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board and Mmesoma, whose UTME result has come under controversy, with the mandate of making its findings public.
Credit: Punch Newspaper
