Ejikeme Mmesoma: Parents Fault JAMB Over Ban

The National Association of Parent- Teacher Association of Nigeria (NAPTAN) has condemned the decision by the  Joint Admission and  Matriculation  Board (JAMB), to bar Miss  Ejikeme Mmesoma from sitting the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination(UTME)for the next three years.

Chief  Adeolu Ogunbanjo, National Deputy Chairman of NAPTAN, condemned the examination body’s action  in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Tuesday.

JAMB had,in a statement  on Tuesday, announced  Mmesona’s ban,accusing the Anambra student of falsifying  her 2023 UTME result slip.

Mr Fabian Benjamin, the board’s Acting Director , Press and Publicity,who issued the statement  ,said  JAMB took the decision after establishing that Mmesoma did not score 362 in the examination as claimed ,but actually scored  249.

Benjamin added that what Mmesoma was parading was the falsified copy of the result slip of one Asimiyu Miriam Omobolanle,who sat the UTME in 2021 and scored 138.

Reacting ,Ogunbanjo described JAMB’s decision as hasty, saying  the body did not  carry out due diligence before taking the step.

“We think JAMB’s decision is hasty.The board should have carried out more due diligence ,more discreet investigation before coming up with the ban.

“We are not particularly at home with JAMB’s approach on this whole issue, although it is  an unfortunate development”,he said.

Ogunbanjo also said that JAMB did not do well for inviting the DSS to arrest the student even  when investigation had not been concluded.

He urged to JAMB to handle the matter carefully  as  it could be a case of hacking .

“UTME is a technology- driven exercise so there could be hacking just like any other technology could as well be hacked,” Ogunbanjo said.

He ,however ,said the case was an eye opener with some positive lessons.

“Students or people who may have  been doing this in the past or planning to have their way through this dubious means, should have a rethink because this issue  has served as an eye opener,” he said. (NAN)

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