Miss Mmesoma Ejikeme has again, apologised to Nigerians, especially the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) for manipulating her 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) results which gave her initial advantage and attracted scholarship to her.
The candidate had manipulated her result to score 62 rather than her actual score of 249 but JAMB was able to detect the fraud which raised national uproar.
The 19-year-old student on Wednesday read a letter of apology before the ad-hoc committee set up by the House of Representatives on the matter and pleaded with JAMB to tamper justice with mercy concerning the three-year ban imposed on her,
The Committee also grilled the Registrar of JAMB, Professor Ishaq Oloyede.
Speaking during the investigative hearing, Chairman of the Panel, Sada Soli, promised to be thorough in order to deliver on his committee’s mandate.
Earlier in his address, the Chairman had said his committee was not out to witch-hunt anybody but carry out its duties effectively and efficiently.
He cited Order 18 rule 9 of the House rule which empowered the committee to carry out it assignment.
In his presentation, Prof. Oloyede, said he was shocked that Miss Ejikeme’s issue had raised a lot of tension within and outside the country and explained that various investigative panels set up within his Board had confirmed that Miss Ejikeme Joy Mmesoma forged the result, adding that JAMB must not be blamed for such misconduct.
He also advised those calling for the scrapping of the examination body to have a re-think, saying the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) was never held responsible for fake currency in the country.
Thereafter, Mmesoma again openly apologised to the Registrar of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board JAMB, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, and Nigerians