JAMB/Mmesoma Saga: Reps Sets Up Investigative Committee, Urge JAMB To Stay Punitive Action

The House of Representatives has urged the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) to stay any punitive actions against Miss  Joy Mmesoma Ejikeme  over alleged falsification of her JAMB score.

This followed the adoption of a motion by Rep. Awaji-Inombek Abiante (PDP-Bayelsa) and the resolution of the House of Representatives to set up an investigative adhoc committee at plenary in Abuja on Wednesday.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls  that Ejikeme  had claimed to have scored 362 as against 249 which the board recorded as her score in the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) through JAMB.

He said Ejikeme, a student of Anglican Girls Secondary School, Nnewi, Anambra,  sat for the 2023 UTME and claimed to have scored 362.

Abiante said on July 2, JAMB Head of Public Affairs and Protocol, Dr Fabian Benjamin in a statement, accused Ejikeme  of manipulating her UTME score from 249 to 362 .

He said Ejikeme came out to defend herself, that she actually printed the result from the JAMB website  and had been a brilliant child all through her nursery and secondary education.

He said Mmesoma came first in all the examinations she had been taking before the UTME, hence she posited that she was not capable of manipulating her UTME result.

According to him, cognisant of the fact that uploading or downloading result of examinations or polls electronically, in Nigeria, glitches can occur at any time, hence the need to establish the facts before any blames.

He said Benjamin had earlier alleged that some of the 2023 UTME candidates were parading fake scores in order to get undue 
advantage from the public, hence the need to investigate the allegation.

The house, therefore,  set up an ad hoc committee to investigate the alleged manipulation of Ejikeme’s  UTME results and report back within one week for further legislative action. (NAN