Reno Omokri, a former presidential aide, has slammed the Anambra State government for convening a panel to investigate the controversy surrounding Ejikeme Mmesoma’s UTME results.
Messoma has been in the spotlight since the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) called into question her claim to be the highest-scoring student in the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
This sparked a major uproar. During the squabble, Anambra Governor Charles Soludo formed a committee to investigate the matter.
However, just a few days into the eight-man panel of inquiry’s meeting, Mmesoma appeared on a television show and recanted her claim of scoring 362.
In response to the committee’s report, Omokri stated that the government should not have gone so far as to investigate what had been proven to be a lie.
He said;
Why would the Anambra State Government set up a high-powered committee, filled with Professors and PhDs, to investigate Mmesoma Ejikeme’s JAMB result? The result is obviously fake. The owner of the centre where she took the exam (Osita Chidoka), has revealed that it is questionable. The girl (more accurately, WOMAN) herself admitted as much during her Channels TV interview.
JAMB is not cheating Anambra State. They have acquitted themselves excellently in this regard. They came up with documentary proof to show any objective onlooker that this is a case of pure criminality, devoid of ethnic bias. Anambra State is cheating itself by wasting human and material resources on a lie. Henceforth, they should not complain that their federal allocation is not enough. They obviously have money to waste! This is what happens when you make a criminal matter an ethnic issue.
Indigenes of Kaduna, Osun, Lagos and Oyo states were also accused of fraud by JAMB. Those ones went to hide and bury their heads in shame, because they know their ethnic groups and states have little tolerance for their criminality. But Mmesoma was bold because she knew she would get support.
Why not? She has already seen how the owners of structurally defective buildings at Alaba market got support purely based on their ethnicity, despite being warned since 2017. She saw how some Nigerians used their ethnicity to almost paralyse the evacuation efforts of Nigerians in Sudan. So, she had enough examples to make her confident that she could get away with it.
And she is right. Instead of her being shamed by the Anambra State Government, she is being protected. The same Anambra State Government that did not constitute a high-powered panel of inquiry to find out who was behind the killings of @USinNigeria embassy staff in Anambra on May 16, 2023, or to fish out those who killed a pregnant Northern Muslim woman, Harira Jubril, and her four underaged children, were crudely murdered in cold blood on the streets of Anambra State, with her four underage daughters, Fatima 9 years, Khadija 7 years, Hadiza 5 years, and Zaituna 2 years, has now put together a powerful committee to protect refuge golden girl (or woman), Mmesoma!
If I was the Governor of Anambra, the first high powered committee I would set up would be a committee of Anambra’s brightest and most brilliant minds to look into how to put an end to the menace of IPOB’s Monday Sit-at-Home, that is costing my state billions of Naira weekly, as well as the malaise of insecurity caused by unknown gunmen.
But no. Anambra State does not have time for that. Their money and time is better spent constituting a committee of professors to investigate a JAMB result whose fakery you can spot in less than five minutes!
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