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UTME controversy: Mmesoma admits she scores 249
Ejikeme Mmesoma, student of Anglican girls Secondary School in Anambra has admitted that she got a message from the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) indicating she scored 249 during this year’s UTME.
She, however, dismissed the forgery allegation against her, insisting she printed her result from the examination portal.
Mmesoma, who claimed to have scored 362 in the 2023 UTME, was recently celebrated and awarded a N3 million scholarship by Innocent Chukwuma, Chairman of Innoson Vehicles Manufacturing Company.
JAMB had however on Sunday issued a statement to refute the claims, saying that the result being paraded by Mmesoma making her the highest scorer in the 2023 UTME was manipulated and that her actual score was 249.
Acting Director, Public Affairs and Protocol of JAMB, Dr Fabian Benjamin, while giving further insight on how the result was forged, said the Board believes the candidate might have some sponsors or managers who helped her to manipulate the result the way she did.
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In an interview with Channels Television on Wednesday, Mmesoma confirmed that the message she got from JAMB’s USSD showed she scored 249.
She added that she sent a message to JAMB’s support system to know where the error came from.
“The only SMS I sent to them was through the JAMB support system. There was no reply. I sent a text message. They did not reply,” she said.
“It is not through USSD code. The one I checked with the USSD code is the one that I saw. After all said and done, I now saw that I got 249. And I sent them a text message to know what really happened to the Jamb support system.
“If they go to their system, they will see it there.”
Mmesoma also spoke about the three-year suspension handed to her by JAMB, saying the sanction “is not fair”.
“I am sad about it because the problem might not be my fault. It is not my fault that I printed my result like that. And they said that I forged my result. So banning me is not fair. It is not fair truly”.