We stopped using result slip displayed by Mmesoma in 2021, she falsified her result, JAMB insists

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Emmy Joe

The Joint Admission Matriculation Board (JAMB) has insisted that Mmesoma Ejikeme falsified her result despite evidence displayed by the student in a now-viral video on Monday evening.

Recall that the student, in response to allegations that she falsified her JAMB result, made a video explaining her side of the story and also displayed a copy of the result printout that she allegedly got from the examination body. She alleged that the examination body did not wait for the conclusion of the DSS investigation before terming her result fake.

However, in a statement made available to Newsmen on Tuesday, Fabian Benjamin, the spokesperson of the examination body insisted that the result printout being paraded by Ms Mmesoma was obsolete and patently fake, detailing that JAMB stopped using the printout currently in her possession far back in 2021.

Mr Benjamin insisted that only Mmesoma paraded the“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,” the statement read.

“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,” it added.

Ms Mmesoma’s response sparked mixed reactions on social media. While some netizens believed that it was impossible for the students to falsify her result alleging that she was being victimized, others suggested that the result sheet she paraded is fake.

However, former Minister of Education Oby Ezekwesili urged the examination body to conduct allow an independent tech organization to conduct a forensic audit of the slip in Ms Mmesoma’s possession.