Chidera Abaratu, PBA Journalism Mentee
By Chidera Abaratu, Journalism Mentee
Mmesoma Ejikeme in a telephone interview on Sunrise Daily programme on Channels TV this morning denied the allegation by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) spokesman, Dr Fabian Benjamin, that she doctored her result.
She equally gave her thoughts on the three-year ban by JAMB.
Join our WhatsApp ChannelRecall that on Wednesday, the spokesman of JAMB, accused Mmeseoma of forging her UTME result and narrated the steps she took in the forgery.
According to the spokesman, Mmesoma sent an SMS to the JAMB USSD code 5501 four times with the hope of changing the score from 249 to 362.
While speaking in the interview, Mmesoma explained that she made use of the JAMB portal to check her result, downloaded it on her phone and later printed it. She later used the USSD code to check the second result which reflected 249. Afterwards sent a message to the JAMB support system but she has yet to get any reply from them.
Reacting to how she felt about JAMB suspending her and withdrawing her result, she said that she was sad about it. and that it wasn’t her fault that her result was printed like that.
“I am sad about it. The problem might not be my fault it’s unfair, not my fault that I printed my result like that, and they say that I forged my result. They banning me is not fair. It is not fair please.” She said.
