The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has again declared that the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) result of a student of Anglican Girls Secondary School Uruagu in Nnewi, Anambra State, Mmesoma Ejikeme, is fake.

JAMB, who had earlier accused Ejikeme of using software to manipulate her score to 362 as against 249, said the examination body has also barred the student from sitting the Board’s examination for the next three years.

The Board, in a statement issued by its spokesperson, Fabian Benjamin, on Tuesday, July 4, stressed that JAMB’s system was neither tampered with nor compromised, noting that Ejikeme falsified a copy of a result slip of a candidate named “Asimiyu Mariam Omobolanle”, who wrote the UTME in 2021 and scored 138.

Benjamin added: “It is also instructive to note that the candidate, in her statement, has inadvertently revealed the rightful owner of the result she is parading when she pointed out that the QR code on the result slip showed the actual owner of the said result before she peddled a lie in an attempt to obfuscate the truth.

“To witness the unassailable position of the Board regarding this obvious falsehood, the general public is, therefore, urged to endeavour to scan the QR code on the result slip to see its actual owner before it was mutilated.

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“It is to be noted that the QR code encapsulates the UTME result of each candidate, hence, what is on the result sheet is nothing other than the interpretation of the information on this QR code.”

He stated that JAMB stopped issuing Notification of Result slips after the 2021 UTME for the reason that candidates were falsifying them.

“Consequently, the Board has been issuing actual UTME RESULT Slips (not notification of results) since 2022 complete with the photograph of each candidate.

“Similarly, the public is also invited to ponder on the fact that out of all the candidates that sat the 2023 UTME, only Ms. Ejikeme Mmesoma parades the obsolete ‘Notification of Result’,” the JAMB spokesman added.

Benjamin said Ejikeme’s case has since been handed over to security agencies for a thorough investigation to unravel the masterminds of what he described as an unfortunate scam.

He noted: “The Board is not averse to public scrutiny and is ready for open public session involving the agencies listed above as well as relevant security agencies where the candidate, parent’s guardian, and her legal team will be present.

“In the meantime, the management of the Board urges members of the public to examine critically the issue at hand and avoid fake news trafficking.

“In the meantime, the management of the Board, after considering the weighty infraction committed by Ms. Ejikeme Joy Mmesoma, and in line with its established procedures, has withdrawn her 2023 UTME result and also barred her from sitting the Board’s examination for the next three years.”

The Star