"Software Packages": JAMB Reveals How Candidates Are Manipulating UTME Results, Sends Message to Nigerians
- JAMB has made a strong revelation about how candidates inflate their Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination results
- The education body made this known while exposing Miss Ejikeme Joy Mmesoma and Atung Gerald from Kaduna state, who inflated their 2023 UTME results
- JAMB disclosed that software is used to fake versions of results and shared in the public domain for fun, and the alleged sponsors of the candidates use the same to defraud Nigerians
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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has revealed ways in which candidates inflate their 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) results.
The examination body disclosed that candidates and their alleged sponsors defraud Nigerians with the claims that they had excellent results or got the highest score in the UTME using a particular software.
Source: Twitter
How JAMB candidates faked their UTME results
JAMB made reference to Miss Ejikeme Joy Mmesoma, who claimed to have scored 362, and Atung Gerald from Kaduna state, who claimed to have scored 380 in the UTME, but had neither obtained the 2023 UTME application documents nor participated in the examination.
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It explained that a certain software was being used to fake the version of results and put the same results out in the public space for fun, while the alleged sponsors of the candidates also use the same results to defraud good-spirited Nigerians, The SUN News reported.
JAMB spokesman, Dr Fabian Benjamin, in a statement, disclosed further that the candidates only succeed in manipulating what they are holding, as the authentic results are with JAMB and would be transmitted to their schools of choice at the appropriate time.
Fabian insisted that many of the results that many of the candidates paraded are fake, adding that in many instances, some candidates obtained far lower scores than they claimed, and had used some software packages to manipulate the results to deceive Nigerians.
JAMB sends an important message to Nigerians over UTME result manipulation saga
Fabian, on behalf of JAMB, advised the public to always cross-check the claims by candidates with the Board before rushing to honour them with undeserving awards, Premium Times report added.
Mmesoma Ejikeme: Former education minister Obiageli Ezekwesili calls for forensic investigation
A former minister of education, Obiageli Ezekwesili, reacted to the UTME score manipulation saga between Mmesoma Ejikeme and the JAMB.
Ezekwesili said the saga requires a forensic investigation to unveil the hidden details of the matter.
She stated this on Monday, July 3, via her Twitter handle, @obyezeks, adding that she reached out to JAMB registrar, Prof Ishaq Olarewaju Oloyede.
Ejikeme Mmesoma: How fake 2023 UTME top scorer was exposed
Earlier, Legit.ng had reported that the examination board revealed how the fake 2023 top scorer in the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations, Ejikeme Mmesoma, was nabbed.
The spokesperson for JAMB, Fabian Benjamin, explained that Umeh Nkechinyere is the actual 2023 UTME top scorer and not Ejikeme, who manually inflated her UTME result from 249 to 362.
Source: Legit.ng
