Again, Mmesoma Apologies to JAMB over UTME Result Forgery
Juliet Akoje in Abuja
The 19-yeard old candidate in the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), Mmesoma Ejikeme, who forged her result, has once more apologised to the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) for her action.
This was as she appeared before the House Ad-hoc Committee investigating the matter headed by Hon. Sada Soli yesterday in Abuja.
Mmesoma, who was at the hearing with her family pleaded for leniency as she promised such would not happen again and that she had never been involved in examination malpractice all her life, promising to be a better person.
She begged that justice be tampered with mercy concerning the three-year ban imposed on her.
She fuether said “Permit me to use this medium to tender this letter of apology with a heavy heart. I deeply and sincerely admit that I ignorantly got my JAMB result from another portal which was not JAMB portal.
“But in the course of this, I lambasted JAMB solidly standing my ground that I obtained my result from JAMB portal. I apologise for all the apportioned blame and all the pain I have caused.
“I want to emphasise that ignorance played a significant role in my misguided action. I learnt a clear understanding of the far-reaching consequences and the impact of my actions would have. Words cannot adequately describe the depths of pain I feel for letting you down. This is the first time in my life, in my academic studies that I would be accused of any form of misbehaviour, not to talk of forgery.
“It is not in my character and personality, therefore I plead for leniency and forgiveness for my misconduct. I want to emphasize my commitment to making amends”
The JAMB Registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, during his remarks said it was impossible to get into their system as the exam body does not have any cloud storage.
He maintained that JAMB system has never been compromised since he assumed office six and a half years ago, adding that JAMB could not be held responsible anytime people forge documents that have to do with the examination body.
“We do not apply cloud storage at all. Our results are not on any cloud storage. Our systems are fool proof. Nobody has ever been able to penetrate our systems. It takes a lot of experts and money to achieve this.
“JAMB had 19 pieces of evidence that proved that Mmesoma was lying about her result. Mmesoma’s QR code was for a student who sat for the exam in 2021 in Osun State. She faked and superimposed her result on the result of the girl from Osun,” he added.
He further said, “she likely gave her password to somebody else because her account was accessed from eight different Computer Based Test Centers in the country and the Centres were under investigation. The Centre where she registered had been suspended.”
He disclosed that 109 persons committed similar offences across the country and that in Akure four persons have been remanded for similar offences by the Akure High Court.
“They are to be in custody till November when their matter will come up. JAMB was aware of an app to generate fake JAMB results and are investigating it”
He however said there was an article in a newspaper which claimed it could help candidates increase their score, saying it was possible she got in touch with the contact on the article which led to the unfortunate development of forgery.
