Ejikeme Mmesoma, a student of Anglican Girls secondary school in Nnewi, Anambra State, who was accused of forging her Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) result, has admitted she scored 249.
Mmesoma spoke in an interview on Channels TV programme, Sunrise Daily on Wednesday.
She said the only SMS she sent to JAMB was through its support system, “That’s the only SMS I sent there.
“They didn’t reply. If they check their JAMB Support System, they would see that I sent a text message. They didn’t reply. The one I checked through the USSD code is the one of 360 (sic) that I saw.
“After all said and done, I now saw that I got 249. I sent them a text message there to know what really happened — the JAMB Support System. If they go to their system, they will see it there,” she said.
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Recall that the 16-year-old had earlier claimed she scored 362 in the 2023 UTME, but JAMB refuted her claim.
But, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), in a statement issued by its spokesman, Dr. Fabian Benjamin later accused her of forging her result in.
Benjamin revealed its records indicated the candidate had sent a series of messages to the board’s automated telecoms system, including the results showing an aggregate of 362.
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JAMB had insisted that her result is “patently fake”, saying it had withdrawn her result and consequently barred her from writing the examination for the next three years.
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