The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says it has concluded investigations on the case of Mmesoma Ejikeme, who was accused of fraudulently inflating her 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) score.
This was disclosed by the Registrar of the Board, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede.
Politics Nigeria reports that the Registrar disclosed this in a transcript sent to journalists from Windhoek, Namibia.
He added that there is an industry that specialises in faking JAMB results.
He said: “The truth is that JAMB has concluded the investigation on Nmesoma’s score falsification matter. She was not the only one caught, just that others have chosen not to go out”, Oloyede said.
“Presently, there is an industry faking results, and unfortunately, they cannot penetrate the JAMB system, the reasons being that (our) system is foolproofed, and we will prove it any time.
“It is unfortunate that parents and some of the candidates that are being fooled are not aware that they are only being fooled.
“There is internal evidence to show that the change in Ejikeme’s scores was done with her collaboration. There are certain features pertaining to her that only her knows unless she makes it available to somebody else. They couldn’t have increased her scores on her behalf.”
Going further, Oloyede said he had already spoken with former Minister of Education Oby Ezekwesili on Nmesoma’s matter and told her it was a high-level scam.
“We improved on our facilities this year, so Ejikeme and her collaborators are still living in the past. I spoke with Mrs Ezekwesili on the matter and I told her that it is a high-level scam and I told her that it was a careless forgery.
“This is because we are no longer using some of the things they used in changing those results since 2021. We used that pattern in 2021 and you saw what happened and many of such individuals were caught as well and they were treated accordingly,” he stated.
