The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has released what it described as ‘authentic’ result slip of the Anambra state candidate, Mmesoma Ejikeme, in further proof its allegation of forgery against her.
The slip shows that the candidate scored 249 for the 2023 UTME, and not 362 as she was paraded.
Recall that earlier in the day, JAMB announced that it had barred Ejikeme for three years over the alleged forgery.
This was contained in a statement made available on Tuesday morning by the Board’s spokesman, Fabian Benjamin, where JAMB insisted that only Mmesoma paraded an “obsolete” notification slip out of all the candidates that sat the 2023 UTME.
“Consequently, 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.
“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,” the statement reads.
