The owner of the jamb CBT centre where Mmesoma wrote her exams has spoken up about the trending controversyMmesoma Ejikeme was accused by JAMB of manipulating her 362 score which wasn't visible in their portalSpeaking on the incident, the CBT centre owner advised Mmesoma to come clean so he can beg on her behalf
Osita Chidoka, a former Minister of Aviation and owner of the Computer-Based Testing (CBT) Centre where Mmesoma Ejikeme sat for her 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) has called on the candidate to explain the source of her result.
Chidoka said he would plead with the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) for leniency if Mmesoma comes clean with her result source.
Owner of Mmesoma Ejikeme's JAMB CBT centre speaks
Photo credit: Osita Chidoka, Mmesoma Ejikeme/ Google ImagesSource: UGC
In a statement on Wednesday, the ex-minister said:
“For Nmesoma, she should come clean and explain how she got that result and who led her down that path. If she does that, I will lend my voice to beg JAMB to note her age and show more leniency.”
Mmesoma claimed that she scored 362, but JAMB insisted that her actual score is 249.
On Channels Television‘s Sunrise Daily programme, Mmesoma said she should not be blamed for the controversy.
“It's not my fault that I printed my result like that and they said that I forged my result. It's not my fault. So, them banning it is not fair,” she said.
The House of Representatives has since criticized JAMB for withdrawing the candidate's result and banning her for three years, stating that the exam body acted unprofessionally in a matter involving a minor.
The House has set up an ad-hoc committee to investigate the matter and asked JAMB to stay in action until the green chamber concludes its investigation.
Chidoka, who is the owner of the CBT Centre where Mmesoma Ejikeme wrote her UTME, has raised concerns about the authenticity of her result. He found two discrepancies that raised his suspicion.
The first was that the name of the centre was not correctly stated on the JAMB portal.
The second was that the result template used for the examination was different from the one used by JAMB in 2023.
Chidoka said that he gave Mmesoma the benefit of the doubt and waited for her to explain how she got the result, but her response was not satisfactory.
He praised JAMB for defending its integrity and suggested that INEC should follow JAMB's example by explaining the “technical glitch” the commission suffered in the February 25, 2023, presidential election.
Ejikeme Joy displays her original result
Meanwhile, Fox Nigeria previously reported that Ejikeme Joy, a young Nigerian student who was accused by the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) of manipulating her result has debunked the allegation. In a trending video, she stated that she has been traumatized ever since she got the news about manipulating her result.
She brought out the result slip which she printed out from the JAMB portal and it displayed an aggregate score of 362. According to her, that was the original result she printed from JAMB and she has no idea where the news about manipulation came from. She said she had presented her result to the commissioner of education and they claimed that the result wasn't original and launched an investigation into the result as the QR code showed another name.
However, before the investigation would be over, she was surprised to see her name flying on the internet for manipulating her scores. Ejikeme maintained that she's not capable of such and any problem in her result would be from the board and not her.
