The Chaplain Corps Policing Explorers, CHAPOL has admonished the pupils of Anglican Girls Secondary School Nnewi to not lose hope in pursuing Academic Excellence due to challenges faced by one of their colleague, Miss Mmesoma Joy Ejikeme, who was accused by JAMB of forging her UTME result.
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB on Sunday said that Ejikeme Mmesoma deliberately inflated her score and presented herself as the highest scorer for the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
“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.
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“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.
“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.”
The Anambra State Commandant of CHAPOL, Mr. Joseph Ekwunife in a visit to Mmesoma’s school with his team emphasised to the pupils to stay strong and remain focused in their academics and not be discouraged by the news of JAMB accusing Mmesoma of forging her result.
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“I read the news of Mmesoma been the best student with highest score in 2023 UTME examination on one of the trustworthy online news platform, Anaedoonline.ng, which led me to call the school Principal, Mrs Uchechukwu Edum to congratulate her and as well texted our Lord Bishop, to congratulate him as well that our daughter has emerged the best in JAMB, but seeing what is happening now, the command is standing in solidarity with you.
“We’re not here just because of Mmesoma, We came because most of you will be asking, Is it now a crime to study hard? Is it now a crime to achieve academic excellence? Must we keep celebrating the celebrities? But we’re here to encourage you to study harder. You’re all princesses that will grow into a queen of various kingdoms and we will not allow anybody to discourage you”.
However, Mr. Ekwunife revealed that CHAPOL Anambra State is strongly in solidarity with Mmesoma until proven otherwise not to.
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“We’re standing in solidarity with Mmesoma Ejikeme through her travails in the hand of JAMB, we will do all we can within our powers to make sure she clears her name because from the record made available to us, she’s a brilliant child and her integrity, hard work result is on the line. We’re standing with her until otherwise proven”.
He also encouraged the senior pupils who are currently writing the National Examination Council (NECO) examination to also study hard and give the examination their all so they can as well emerge the over all best.
The Commandant, however, eulogised the Anambra State commissioner for Education, Prof. Ngozi Chuma-Udeh as a crusader of academic excellence held on strong principles, who he said is working hard to ensure that the students of Anambra State emerges the best in their examinations.
The officers of CHAPOL in attendance during the visit include, the Anambra State Commandant, Mr. Joseph Ekwunife, the Nnewi Area Commander of CHAPOL and Vicar of St. Pauls Anglican Church Otolo Nnewi, Rev. Canon Frankprince Aniakor, the State Director of School Operations (Monitoring Department) and State Operation Director, Chapl. Nwashili Kingsley, the State Director For School Operations (Teaching Department) and State Adminstrator, Chapl Lordfrank Aniakor, the State Parade Commander, Chapl Sopuru Mbah.
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The Chaplain Corps Policing Explorers, CHAPOL is an organisation working in collaboration with Anambra Ministry of Education to curb moral decadence and other moral vices among the students of government secondary school.
CHAPOL celebrated their ten (10) years of operations in government secondary schools on 1st of July 2023.
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