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Mmesoma Ejikeme
By PAMELA EBOH, Awka
The embattled student of Anglican Girls Secondary School, Nnewi in Anambra State, Mmesoma Ejikeme, who was accused of manually inflating her 2023 Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) examination result, has accepted that her initial claim was wrong.
Mmesoma during an interview with Sunrise Daily on Channels Television on Wednesday confirmed that she received an automated text message from JAMB indicating that her score was 249.
Recall that Mmesoma had earlier claimed that she scored 362 against Mann's 249 claim for the said candidate.
Though JAMB had through its spokesman, Fabian Benjamin, maintained that Mmesoma did not score 362 as she claimed, Mmesoma took to her Facebook page to showcase an alleged JAMB result print-out, insisting that was the score she obtained and could not have manipulated or forged it.
She also described herself as a brilliant kid right from her nursery school days.
JAMB’s Benjamin had earlier revealed that the candidate sent a series of messages to the board’s automated telecoms system, including the results showing an aggregate of 362.
Responding, Mmesoma said the only SMS she sent to JAMB was through its support system: “That’s the only SMS I sent there.”
Responding to if she got any feedback from the support system, she said: “They didn’t reply. If they check their JAMB Support System, they would see that I sent a text message. They didn’t reply.”
On the claim that she used an Airtel line, Mmesoma replied: “Yes,” but she added it was “not through USSD code”.
“The one I checked through the USSD code is the one of 360 that I saw,” she explained further.
In her response to the claim that the feedback from JAMB showed her score as 249, she agreed.
Her words: “Yes, after all was said and done, I now saw that I got 249. I sent them a text message there to know what really happened – the JAMB Support System. If they go to their system, they will see it there.”
Mmesoma who has in the recent days become a popular figure on social media, following the issue of faking JAMB result and insisting it came from JAMB IS 19-year-old.
Her issue also attracted the attention of a good citizen who offered her international scholarship in any institution in UK, US and Canada.
