Following the controversy surrounding the accusation of Miss Ejikeme Mmesoma of forging her Unified Tertiary Matriculation examination result, the body in charge of the examination, the Joint Admission Matriculation Board (JAMB), has once again opened up on the actual owner of the controversial result, and why it stopped using the result notification slips to its candidates since 2021.
In an interview on Channels TV’s ‘Sunrise Daily’ this morning, JAMB spokesman Fabian Benjamin stated that the examination body doesn’t have any interest in anybody and that their interest is to protect the sanctity of the examination body, vowing to do anything humanly possible to protect it.
His words read in part: “There is a QR code. That QR code is the result. Whatever you are seeing there(on the result slip) is a reflection of the QR code. If you scan the QR code, you will see the owner of the result and the owner of the result scored 138 in 2021. That was the last time we used this particular result. Asimiyu Maryam Omobolanle is the owner of the result. Scan it 10 times, you will see that the result belongs to Omobolanle.”
According to him, the last time the examination body issued this kind of result notification slip to a candidate was in 2021, and that was when one Chinedu John sued them for 1 or 2 billion naira after he falsified the original result released, making it clear that they stopped using this because it could be easily altered by candidates.
In response to those criticising the body for its poor handling of the results of the candidates, he, however, said that it doesn’t affect any information on the JAMB database. He stated that the actual result of each candidate that sat for the examination is always captured on the QR code on the result slip. He added that if the QR code is scanned, the name and score of the candidate will be displayed.
See the link to the interview (from 0 to 3 mins):
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