Mr Romanus Ejikeme, father of Ejikeme Mmesoma, who the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) accused of manipulating her Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) result, has opened up.
He defended her daughter, saying she is innocent of the allegation put up against her.
Recall that JAMB had on Sunday accused Mmesoma, who hails from Anambra State, of manually inflating her UTME score from 249 to 362, thus parading herself as the 2023 UTME top scorer.
While reacting, the accused father faulted JAMB’s claim, saying his daughter was incapable of manipulating result.
“This is a case of foul play. My daughter’s result went viral and she is innocent of the accusation of manipulation levelled against her. She printed her result the same way others printed theirs and she does not have the capacity to manipulate anything on her own.
“She was not aware of the result, it was when the result was going viral that people drew her attention to it before she went to print it out from the Internet. The result has been with her for over a month; it was downloaded and they did not detect anything until now.
“We went to the office of the Commissioner for Education to present the result and on getting there, DSS officials arrested my daughter and took her to their office for interrogation, but later released her.
“My daughter is brilliant and she has always been topping her class right from the beginning. They should make proper investigation,” he said.
