Anglican Diocese of Nnewi has finally reacted to the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) result forgery accusation by the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) on Miss Ejikeme Joy Mmesoma of Anglican Girls Secondary School Nnewi, Anambra State.
The Education secretary of Nnewi Diocese, Ven. M. Nduka speaking at a press briefing held on July 5th at Bishop’s court, Nnewi on behalf of the Anglican Bishop of Nnewi Diocese, Rt. Rev. Ndubuisi Chukwuka Obi revealed that the church will stand by the truth as investigations continue.
His words; “We remain committed to truth and believe that Anambra State Government through the governor’s panel of enquiry will find out the truth from this situation”. he said.
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JAMB had on Sunday, 2nd July 2023 accused Miss Mmesoma for deliberately inflating her score and presenting herself as the highest scorer for the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
This is some excerpts from the commission press release; “The attention of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has been drawn to several publications in both print and online media celebrating certain candidates for being high scorers in the 2023 UTME.
“The Board is constrained to set the records straight and wishes to state unequivocally that many of the results which many of these candidates are parading are fake. In many instances, some of these candidates had actually obtained far lower scores than they are claiming and had used some funny software packages to manipulate their results to deceive unsuspecting members of the public.
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“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 N3m scholarship by Chief (Dr.) Innocent Chukwuma. She was even set to be 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 the 362 she claimed. She had manipulated her UTME result to deceive the public to fraudulently obtain scholarships and other recognitions.”
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