- A candidate who claimed to have scored 362 in the 2023 UTME, deceive the public.
- unknown to the candidate, the Board had modified the design of the 2023 UTME result sheet.
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has been notified that several publications in both offline and online media have congratulated certain candidates on their outstanding performance in the 2023 UTME.
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced that it will prosecute Ejikeme Mmesoma, a 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) candidate from Anambra State, for “manipulating” her result in this year’s examination.
“Miss Ejikeme Joy Mmesoma had scored 249 and not 362 she claimed,” the Board said in a statement on Sunday signed by its spokesman, Fabian Benjamin. “She had manipulated her UTME result to deceive the public to fraudulently obtain a scholarship and other recognitions.”
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JAMB also said the original result of Mmesoma would be withdrawn, stating that many candidates are parading fake results having “used some funny software packages”.
Innocent Chukwuma, the founder of Innoson Motors, is said to have already awarded the candidate an N3m scholarship.
JAMB applauded “Chukwuma and encouraged other Nigerians who want to invest in the future of genuine youngsters not to be discouraged, but to always ensure that they get the authentic results from the Board as done by the Anambra State Ministry of Education, or else they will be celebrating criminality as this is just another new fraudulent method in town.”
but, these candidates are only succeeding in influencing what they have as the authentic results are with the Board and will be transmitted to their preferred schools at the appropriate time.
It is to be noted that Miss Mmesoma had sent a message to the Board’s platform to request her UTME result after which she manually inflated her scores and pasted the same on the 2022 UTME result sheet.
Unknown to her, the Board had changed the design of the 2023 UTME result sheet. Her original result remains 249 as nothing can change that. With this her ignoble act, Miss Mmesoma would be prosecuted and her original result withdrawn.
This is not all; the Board will investigate all candidates who claim to have received higher grades than they received. When such candidates are discovered, their original results are withdrawn immediately and they are handed over to relevant security agencies for prosecution.