The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB says many of the results being branded as high scores in the last Unified Tertiary Matriculation examinations are fake.
In a statement, JAMB Spokesman, Fabian Benjamin Says its attention has been drawn to several publications in both print and online media celebrating certain candidates for being high scorers in the 2023 UTME.
In an effort to set the record straight, JAMB says In many instances, some of these candidates had actually obtained far lower scores than they are claiming and had used some software packages to manipulate their results to deceive unsuspecting members of the public.
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JAMB says the most pathetic of them all is the case of Miss Ejikeme Joy Mmesoma, who claimed to have scored 362 in the 2023 UTME and was awarded a three million scholarship.
Ejikeme is said to have even been honoured by the Anambra State Government when one of its top officials put a call through to JAMB to confirm her claim only for the Board to reveal that Miss Ejikeme Joy Mmesoma had actually scored 249 and not 362 as claimed.
JAMB insists she had manipulated her UTME result to deceive the public to fraudulently obtain scholarship and other recognitions.
JAMB reports a similar case was that of one Atung Gerald in Kaduna, who claimed to have scored 380 and his ethnic group had taken the issue up requesting that he should be given special recognition only for the JAMB to disappoint them with the incontestable fact that Atung never obtained the 2023 UTME application documents not to talk of sitting the examination.
Editor: Anoyoyo Ogiagboviogie
