Education

Anambra JAMB candidate admits: I got 249 in UTME not 362

A student of Anglican Girls Secondary School Uruagu in Nnewi, Anambra State, Mmesoma Ejikeme, who was accused of forging her 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) result, has admitted scoring 249 in the examination.

The Star recalls that Ejikeme, who has been parading a UTME result with a score of 362 and said to be the highest scorer, has been dismissed by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) as being fake.

JAMB said the student used software to manipulate her score to 362 as against 249.

The examination body later withdrew Ejikeme’s original result and banned her from taking the examination for three years.

However, the student, while speaking in an interview with Channels Television on Wednesday, July 5, said she ought not to be blamed for the controversy trailing her UTME result.

READ ALSO: Mmesoma’s father: We’ve no plans to sue JAMB

She said: “It’s not my fault that I printed my result like that and they said that I forged my result. It’s not my fault. So, them banning it is not fair.”

Mmesoma added that she sent an SMS to JAMB through its support system but got no response.

The student said: “If they check their JAMB Support System, they would see that I sent a text message. They didn’t reply.

“After all was 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.”

The Star

Segun Ojo

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