“I Am Traumatized”, Mmesoma, Teenager Accused Of Forging JAMB Result Cries Out

By Charles Igbo

The 16-year old Anambra student, Mmesoma Ejikeme,  accused of allegedly forging her Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) result has cried out over her fate.

In a video where she told her story and narrated her ordeal,  the 16-year old student of Anglican Girls Secondary School Nnewi, Anambra State, said the controversy which has surrounded her JAMB score has left her traumatized. “I am traumatized”, she lamented in the video.

Miss Ejikeme’s trouble started when it was announced, not by JAMB, that she had the highest score in the recently released JAMB result, having scored, allegedly, 362  out of the maximum score of 400 marks.

Congratulations came in like claps of thunder. And so was the excitement, especially, when her poor family background became public.

A daughter of a motorcyclist (Okada) rider, it was very difficult for her parents to pay her school fees, WASSCE and NECO, and even JAMB fees.

Becoming the highest JAMB scorer was like manna falling for her and her family  from Heaven. She was sure of sponsorship for her University education from JAMB, her State Government and kind individuals.

First to take appreciate her was Chief Innocent Chukwuma, the Chairman of Innoson Motors Manufacturing Company. He hosted the teenager, and offered her a scholarship through University, worth the sum of three million Naira.

This was followed by an excited Anambra State Government which saw her feat as a confirmation of the attention Governor Chukwuma Soludo is, according to it, paying to the Education Sector.

But all that came crashing when JAMB poured ice on the excitement by dismissing Ejikeme’s score as fake. In a statement JAMB said she forged her JAMB score. It said she scored 249 marks, and inflated it to 362. JAMB, instead, announced another  Anambra teenager, Nkechinyere Umeh, who scored 360 as the owner of the trophy. It did not stop at that. JAMB withdrew Ejikeme’s result, and declared her an impostor who would be prosecuted. By doing that, JAMB has put a stop to her ever securing admission in any University in Nigeria, now or in future.

But Ejikeme in the video where she flaunted her JAMB result slip insisted she forged no result, and is not capable of doing that. She said the result is hers, that it is no fake, and that there was no forgery of any result on her part.

She said, showing her result: “My name is Ejikeme Mmesoma. I am the owner of this result. I went to the JAMB portal to print this result, and this is what they gave me. This is my aggregate, 362. This is exactly how I printed it from their site. They are now saying I forged the result. This what I don’t know. I am traumatized that they accused me of forging my own result. I am nor capable  of forging results.”

Showing her result, she said: “This is the evidence.”

She, also, said that any problem was JAMB’s, not hers, and gave an example. She said: “Okay, they said that I forged the result. They scanned this OR Code. It showed another name, a Yoruba name, Omotola Afolabi. She got 138. They checked again and saw that the girl got 338, meaning that there is a problem.”

The Principal of her school stands by her. Meanwhile, the result of an investigation carried out by the Department of State Services, DSS, is being awaited.