Mmesoma’s alleged result falsification, a careless forgery – Registrar

By Bisi LAWAL

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has described the case of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination candidate, Mmesoma Ejikeme as a case of “careless forgery”.

Registrar of the Board, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, who made this disclosure on Tuesday, added that JAMB had concluded investigations on the case.

Oloyede 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 JAMB system, reasons being that (our) system is fool-proofed 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.”

The Registrar said he had earlier spoken with a former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili, on Nmesoma’s matter, and told her that 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.