The management of Innoson Automobile Company appears to have picked holes in the allegation by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) of result manipulation against Miss Mmesoma Ejikeme, saying that it is strange to hear this.
The company said that it carried out its independent verification after the claims and found out that Mmesoma scored 362 when her result was printed.
According to NAN, this was made known by the Head of Corporate Communications at Innoson Group, Cornel Osigwe, during an interview on Monday in Onitsha.
Osigwe stated that the N3 million scholarship awarded to Mmesoma by Innoson Automobile Company will still stand if she is found to be innocent of the allegation by JAMB of result manipulation.
Our scholarship might still stand
Osigwe said, “It is strange to us because we did our independent verification and found out that Mmesoma Ejikeme scored 362 when we printed her result.
- “When it was claimed that she was the highest, we waited for JAMB to come and clarify it, but they did not and the media was publishing that she was the highest.
- “We also waited to see if there was going to be a counterclaim, but since there was no counterclaim, we awarded her the scholarship as the highest scorer.
- “On Sunday, it was reported that JAMB claimed that she manipulated her result. We are doing our independent investigation as we speak to know if she manipulated her result or if the fault was from JAMB.
- “If we find out that the girl manipulated her result for obvious reasons, we will withdraw the scholarship.
- “But if we find out that the mistake was actually from JAMB; that they were the ones that awarded her the score, or probably did a review and found out that her actual score was 249, then our scholarship will still stand.”
Osigwe advised Ejikeme not to panic during this period of investigation, saying that they can carry out a proper investigation to unravel the truth.
He further stressed that if they find out that she is innocent of the allegation, whether she scored the highest or not, the scholarship will still stand.
What you should know
JAMB had on Sunday, July 2, accused Ejikeme Mmesoma of manually inflating her score from 249 to 362 and parading herself as the top scorer for the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
The examination body said she manipulated her UTME result to deceive the public to fraudulently obtain a scholarship and other recognitions, adding that it will withdraw her certificate and prosecute her.
I believe, innoson is an organized company; before an award is given, the company should first confirm from the body responsible for the examination. If the company wishes to go ahead with the award in the face forgery, they are liberty to do so, after all it is not a public fund.
Read well before commenting. The lady PRINTED THE RESULT FROM THE JAMB PORTAL. How can she then be accused of forgery? Innoson went to the same portal and got the same result. So the fault is from JAMB.
It will not be forgery if she genuinely believed that her score was actually 362. The number 362 was the score she saw when she checked, right? You wouldn’t expect her to think that her score was any any other number other than 362 if 362 was all she saw on the result. That was why IAC said that “if the mistake was actually from JAMB”. Now, if she knew her score was 249 and she said 362, then that’s a different story, that will not be a mistake from JAMB. I strongly believe that this is a very sound decision from IAC PR team because it was a slippery slope; and the company is very reputable in Africa.
@Kayode, are you belaboring under a basic comprehension difficulty? The company made it clear that it would withdraw the scholarship only if the ongoing investigation finds out that she forged the results. Otherwise, the scholarship stands – regardless of the real score. That’s ADMIRABLE!
Meanwhile, I hope the ongoing investigation is INDEPENDENT, because trying to verify the real scores from JAMB would be akin to trying to verify real results from INEC! LMAO!!
Mr Chukwuma is right..JAMB need to provide a strong.argument.for.what.happener. The candidate cannot be punished for an offence she knew nothing about. JAMB should not wash it’s dirty linen of inefficiency and corruption in public domain.. The internal quality control.system.in JAMB is pathetic
Why would they release a result and go to change after the candidate had printed in an ethnic volatile environment like ours.
Yes, they can spend their money the way they want. But then if JAMB made a mistake in the score of 362 when her actual score is 249, Innoson can still award her the scholarship but not on the basis of being the highest scorer, it will have to be on some other metric. That she “manipulated” her score is an allegation that has to be proven to ne true before she can be pronounced guilty. What a needless controversy caused by incompetence most probably by the examination body.
@Sunkanmi, I agree, but this will be a very big blow to the credibility of JAMB. The questions we will now be asking are how many mistakes have JAMB made in the past and how often are these mistakes? how many universities have accepted students with the wrong JAMB scores and for how long? Should students start applying for review of their scores because they believe there was a mistake by JAMB? A few very senior officials will have to get fired just to kickstart confidence building with the public. However, JAMB already gave a press release stating that she acted fraudulently, which is just very sad news & was she capable of acting all alone? I suggest that Innoson withdraws the scholarship and give it to the actual highest in the Nigeria or Anambra or wherever for that batch, because I think that this 362 was supposed to break Chibuzor’s 358 all-time record, it was supposed to be an extra-special occasion.
Has Jamb turned to INEC?