The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has insisted that Mmesoma Ejikeme forged her 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) result.

Development Diaries reports that the examination body alleged that Ejikeme used undisclosed software to change her score from 249 to 362.

As a result, JAMB has slammed a three-year ban on her.

But reacting in a video on her Facebook page, Ejikeme insisted that she did not alter her result on JAMB’s portal, denying any wrongdoing.

She said, ‘They are just trying to harass me and my family. After the results were released over two months ago, why is it taking them this long to say what they are saying now?

‘Now, using the QR code is indicating another name – Omotola Afolabi – which initially showed a score of 138 and, later, 338. Somebody cannot have two different results from the same examination.

‘I cannot do what they are accusing me of. I have been a brilliant girl from my Nursery School days. I scored over 300 in my common entrance examination to secondary school’.

She further accused JAMB of not waiting for the outcome of an investigation before declaring her result a fraud.

‘The DSS took us to their office, we made a statement there and they said they would contact us, that they’re going to investigate this result to know where it came from’, she claimed.

Based on Ejikeme’s claims, some questions are begging for answers. If the result was still being investigated, why did JAMB not wait for the outcome of the investigation?

Also, JAMB results were released in May 2023. Why did it take the examination body two months to discover a ‘fraudulent result’?

It is only reasonable at this point to begin a forensic investigation to help ascertain what happened as the integrity and reputation of the examination body and the teenage candidate are at stake.

Development Diaries calls on JAMB to conduct a transparent and unbiased investigation into the claims made against the examination body and make their findings public.