The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board(JAMB) has said it will ban Mmesoma Ejikeme from writing the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination for allegedly manipulating her results.

This was disclosed in a statement by the Spokesperson to the board, Mr. Fabian Benjamin on Tuesday,July 4th.

ThisNigeria reported that JAMB had alleged that Mmesoma Ejikeme, the acclaimed highest 2023 UTME scorer had manually inflated her results in order to attract scholarships.

The 16-year-old however denied the claims made by the board, claiming that the results is authentic.

The academic board on Tuesday accused the pupil of falsifying  a copy of a result slip of a candidate named Asimiyu Mariam Omobolanle, who sat the UTME in 2021 and scored 138.

The statement reads“ The Board would like to reassure Nigerians that its system was neither tampered with nor compromised as the candidate simply falsified a copy of a result slip of a candidate named Asimiyu Mariam Omobolanle, who sat the UTME in 2021 and scored 138.

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“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. 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.

“Furthermore, the public is also to note that the Board stopped issuing Notification of Result slips after the 2021 UTME for the simple 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.”