As reactions, claims and counter-claims continue to trail the allegation by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation. (JAMB) against its candidate in the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), Mmesoma Ejikeme over result falsification, Nigeria’s ace musician and rights activist, Charles Oputa, popularly known as Charly Boy, has waded into the result saga.
Recall that JAMB which has its group d on the raging matter has pronounced a three-year ban on Mmesoma for result falsification.
Charly Boy, in reaction to the controversy, took to his Twitter page on Monday, July 3rd, 2023 and challenged JAMB to provide Mmesoma’s paper for the external body to remark.
He wrote; “JAMB must produce her paper for an external body to remark. I don’t trust the mark they claim they awarded her right now.”
“JAMB has ended up making the young girl popular and the girl on the other hand exposed JAMB’s corruption & ineptitude just like INEC.”
“JAMB must produce her paper for the external body to remark. I don’t trust the mark they claim they awarded her right now.
“JAMB has ended up making the young girl popular and the girl on the other hand exposed JAMB’s corruption & ineptitude just like INEC.
JAMB Insists Candidate Falsify Result
Recall that on Sunday, the test and administration board withdrew Ms Ejikeme’s UTME score after accusing her of faking and manipulating her results.
The adolescent had on Monday denied fabricating the UTME results in a viral video while speculating that it might have been a systemic error on the part of the board.
However, Fabian Benjamin, JAMB’s spokesperson, in a statement said, “The board wants to reassure Nigerians that its system has not been tampered with or corrupted as a result. The candidate merely altered a duplicate of Asimiyu Mariam Omobolanle’s result slip, who took the UTME in 2021 and received a score of 138, the exam organisation said.
“It is also essential to note that the applicant accidentally identified the rightful owner of the result she is flaunting in her statement, according to JAMB. Before peddling a lot to obfuscate the truth, she did this by pointing out that the QR code on the result slip revealed who the true owner of the stated result was.
The statement continued, “Thus, the general public is asked to try to scan the QR code on the result slip to see its actual owner before it was mutilated to witness the impregnable position of the board on this evident falsehood. It should be remembered that each candidate’s UTME results are encoded in the QR code. Hence, the information on the result sheet
The board went on to say that in order to dissuade candidates from fabricating their UTME results, it discontinued distributing notification of result slips in 2021.
From 2022, according to JAMB, it has been providing actual UTME result slips (as opposed to notifications of results), each of which includes the candidate’s photograph.
The statement added, “Similarly, the public is also invited to reflect on the reality that only Ms Ejikeme Mmesoma paraded the antiquated “notice of result” out of all the candidates who took the 2023 UTME.
