By Halimah Olamide
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board candidate who was accused of faking her highest score Ejikeme Joy Mmesomma has insisted that at no point did she engage in any form of forgery of her result.
Breaking her silence in a video which was released about 24 hours after JAMB made the allegations against her, the candidate said she could not have faked her result because she printed directly from the portal of the examination body.
“I am the owner of this result. I went to JAMB portal to print this result and this is what they gave me. This is my aggregate, 362. This is exactly how I printed it out and downloaded from that side,” she said.
“So, they now saying that I forged the result is what I don’t know. I am traumatised that they accused me of forging my own result. Because I am not capable of forging my own result.
“This is the evidence. They said that I forged my result. They can scanned this QR code then and it showed another name. A Yoruba name, Omotola Afolabi, 138. And that same person that scored 138, they checked again, the person score 338. Meaning that there is problem somewhere.
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“And we went to the commissioner of education office last week Friday, with my principal and the educational secretary of Anglican Secondary school girls of Anglican Diocese. So we went there and showed this result to the commissioner of education. She snapped it and sent it to the JAMB officials.
“They called back and said this is a forged result that I forged it myself. That the jamb office don’t have the record of this.
‘They now said that I forged it and called the DSS over. The DSS took us to their office and we made our statements there and said they will contact us later that they are going to investigate this result to know where the source came from.
“So instead of them to wait for the investigation to be over, they posted that I forged d the result without confirming. I am really sad about it.
“And since my nursery school I’ve been taking first. It’s not that I am an illiterate girl to go and forge my result because I’m not intelligent to impress people.
“Even my common entrance it was three hundred and something.”
NPO Reported earlier that JAMB’s Head of Public Affairs Fabian Benjamin, had issues a statement on Sunday saying the candidate faked the result to claim having the highest scores.
The candidate had received a scholarship of N3m from the chairman of the Innoson Motors Innocent Chukwuma.
Head of Corporate Affairs of the company Cornel Osigwe had said in series of tweets on Monday that the company disagreed with JAMB over claims that the candidate manipulated her results.
He had vowed that Innoson would embark on an independent investigation into the matter.