The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, candidate, at the centre of a fraud allegation, Mmesoma Ejikeme, has admitted scoring 249. Mmesoma was reacting to claims that the feedback from JAMB showed she scored 249.
The 19-year-old had claimed to have earned JAMB’s highest score after her UTME result slip showed 362. JAMB had, in a statement, said the candidate committed fraud by inflating her scores. She has been slammed with a three year ban. Featuring on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily on Wednesday, Mmesoma said: “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.” “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,” she said.