Mmesoma Ejikeme has confessed to an eight-member panel set up by Governor Charles Soludo of Anambra State that the JAMB result she paraded claiming she had a score of 362 in the 2023 UTME was forged.
She made the confession while appearing before the panel, explaining that she completed the forgery before heading to a local cybercafe to print the inauthentic copy showing that she scored 362, instead of the original, JAMB-issued of 249.
Headed by Nkemdili Nnonyelu, a professor, the committee confirmed Miss Mmesoma forged the score of 362 as earlier claimed by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board.
When asked what the motive for the forgery was, she struggled to answer, but the report and analysts have hinted at a possible desire for laurels and rewards that often came with such high academic achievements.
Indeed, because of the fake result which supported the false claim of her securing the highest score in the 2023 UTME, she was due to receive scholarships and other cash prizes from the government and other private companies such as Innoson Motors. In fact, it was in the process of confirming the result from JAMB before the awarding of benefits that the disparity became obvious and the forgery was exposed.
Her confession has exonerated JAMB which defended the integrity of its results authentication process, having listed 16 features of the updated printed copy of its result displayer which Mmesoma’s forged copy lacked.
The agency, through its spokesperson, also revealed to the public Mmesoma’s desperate efforts to impose her made-up scores breakdown on the agency, after obtaining logs recorded from her mobile phone when she checked her actual results from the server and was shown 249, but she responded with her preferred score of 362.
The confession also shames those who made the controversy about Mmesoma’s Igbo ethnicity, with baseless claims accusing JAMB of targeting her because she was ‘Igbo’.