The Innoson Group has reacted to the allegation of certificate forgery against Ejikeme Mmesoma by the Joint Admission and Matriculations Board (JAMB) that she inflated her result and announced herself as the top scorer for the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination.
Innoson Head of Corporate Communications, Cornel Osigwe, has therefore called for an investigation into the allegations.
Osigwe in a post via his official Twitter handle argued that Ejikeme does not have the brain and capacity to manipulate her result.
He wrote, “The girl I met doesn’t have the brain and capacity to manipulate her result. There is more to this story. A proper investigation needs to be done. Abeg let the poor breath.
“That girl was one of the most brilliant in her school, according to the Principal, her parents couldn’t even afford to pay for her WAEC and NECO Exams. Of what advantage will it offer her to manipulate her JAMB score? Let the poor breathe please.”
Kanyi Daily earlier reported that JAMB chided Ejikeme for parading herself as the UTME top scorer.
In a statement issued by the board on Sunday evening, JAMB said the student manually inflated her UTME result from 249 to 362 and used her inflated score to attract a three-million naira scholarship from Innoson Motors, and was set to be awarded by the Anambra State Government before she was exposed.
JAMB also said as a punishment, it would withdraw the result of Ejikeme Mmesoma and prosecute her for her “ignoble act.”
“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 362 she claimed. She had manipulated her UTME result to deceive the public to fraudulently obtain a scholarship and other recognitions,” JAMB said in its statement.
Ejikeme will be prosecuted and have her original result withdrawn by the board, JAMB said.
Innoson said the group is doing its own independent investigation on the issue of manipulation, adding that “if we found that the girl willfully manipulated her result, we shall withdraw the scholarship, but if we observe she is innocent of the accusation, then the scholarship stands, whether she is the best or not.”
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In other news, Governor Agbu Kefas of Taraba State has imposed a 24-hour curfew on Karim town, the headquarters of Karim Lamido Government Area (LGA), and its environs effective July 2, 2023.
The curfew followed renewed communal conflicts in some parts of the local government area after the killing of over thirty lives.
