Mr Romanus Ejikeme, father of the Anambra student who was accused of forging her JAMB result, has spoken out amid the controversy surrounding his daughter.
It was earlier reported that Ejikeme Mmesoma, a student of the Anglican Girls Secondary School, Nnewi in Anambra State, is being accused of inflating her result and falsely declaring herself as the top scorer for the 2023 UTME.
According to the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, Mmesoma’s actual score in the examination was 249, which is different from the 362 she has been claiming.
In an interview with Leadership newspaper, Mmesoma’s father addressed the accusation and refuted the claims of his daughter falsifying her result.
He further accused the board of attempting to siphon the N3 million scholarship she obtained from Innocent Chukwuma, the chairman of Innoson Motors.
He also mentioned that his daughter has consistently demonstrated exceptional academic abilities and consistently came first position in her class. He added that he firmly believes his daughter is incapable of manipulating her result.
His words,
“We are from Oduma in Aninri local government in Enugu state, but we live in Uruagu, Nnewi. Mmesoma is my first child. She had always taken first position from the time she was in the nursery school at Ogbunike Central School.
When she was at Oba Girls’ Secondary School, Mmesoma was representing the school in competitions. So when she changed to Anglican Girls’ Secondary School, her teachers in Oba Girls came and pleaded with me, begging me to retain her in their school; that she is promoting the name of their school.
Mmesoma cannot manipulate her UTME score. I don’t believe what they are saying. They just want to transfer that scholarship to another person. That is why they are saying that Mmesoma did not make that score.
It is even her (Mmesoma) friends that saw her score on the internet and started calling her before she went and printed it out. We have the print-out with us now.”
Speaking further, Ejikeme expressed his concern over his daughter’s emotional state, sharing that she has been feeling extremely sad and even shedding tears since her visit to the commissioner of education, followed by her subsequent transfer to the DSS office.
