A former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili, has stated that she supports the sanctions imposed on Mmesoma Ejikeme by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board for manipulating her UTME result.
This is in response to the report of the Anambra State Committee of Inquiry, which revealed that the Anglican Girls Secondary School, Nnewi student admitted to manipulating her results with her phone.
While the controversy over Mmesoma’s result raged, with JAMB insisting that she falsified her results, changing her true score of 249 to 362, Ezekwesili called on a thorough inquiry.
With the Anambra State panel’s report indicting Mmesoma, which was signed by the Commissioner for Information, Paul Nwosu, the former education minister said she is satisfied with the procedure, which allowed the student a fair hearing.
JAMB had withdrawn Mmesoma’s result and prevented her from taking the exam for the next three years, sanctions Ezekwesili stated she supports in a Twitter post on Saturday.
“I have just read the report of the Committee set up by Anambra State Government to investigate and report their independent findings on the Mmesoma and JAMB Saga.
“I am satisfied with the process and findings of their investigation which gave Mmesoma a fair hearing to enable the Committee to gather all facts.
“It was necessary to have independent evidence that the result Mmesoma laid claim to publicly was not only fake but that the forgery was personally orchestrated by her.
“There are usually syndicates at the center of perpetration of exam malpractices in Nigeria but it appears not to be so in Mmesoma’s case from the facts of the Committee’s report.
“Mmesoma’s action has consequences. I therefore support the sanctions imposed by JAMB as a deterrent to all who participate in the systemic exam malpractices within our educational system.” Ezekwesili tweeted.
