- Mmesoma assures House of Rep ad hoc committee that she will accept their recommendation
- She says it is not her intention to soil the integrity of JAMB
Mmesoma Ejikeme, the candidate at the heart of a Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) results forgery scandal, has said the result she was parading is indeed fake and that the one with JAMB is actually her real result.
This is as she appealed to the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) to forgive her for her transgression.
The contrite 19-year-old appeal was contained in a letter of apology she read on Wednesday when she appeared before the House of Representatives ad hoc committee on the manipulation in Abuja
Mmesoma had claimed a score of 362 as opposed to her official score of 249, according to JAMB.
In one viral video, she flaunted the result which she claimed had been downloaded from the official JAMB portal.
The Board however said she was lying and presented proof indicating that Mmesoma had requested her result via its automated SMS-based service, which repeatedly responded to her requests with the 249 score.
Mmesoma told the lower chamber that she had admitted what she did was wrong, adding that it was the reason she came to present her ‘Letter of Profound Apology’.
“I humbly seek your forgiveness for the mistake I made. I sincerely agree that I got the JAMB result from another portal. In the course of this, I lambasted JAMB; I apologise,” she said.
The candidate, who has since had her result withdrawn and earned a three-year ban by the exam body, confessed that her action was spurred by ignorance.
“Words cannot describe the depth of pain in my heart. This is the first time I will be doing this, I have never engaged in falsification or any misdemeanour,” she said, adding that it was not in her character to manipulate results or bring public institutions to ridicule.
Penitent Mmesoma said she had turned a new leaf, assuring the lawmakers that she would willingly accept the recommendation of the ad hoc committee as she attempts to rectify her mistake and become a better person.
“I want you to temper justice with mercy,” she pleaded.