The management of Innoson Automobile Company has threaten to with the ₦3 million scholarship funds awarded to Mmesoma Ejikeme, if she is found guilty of the allegation made agains her by the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB).
After Ejikeme claiming to have scored 362 in the 2023 UTME, which happens to be the highest score in the 2023 Unified Tertiary and Matriculation Examination (UTME), the automobile company awarded her scholarship.
Recent development on Sunday, July 2, 2023, of being accused by the Board of parading a fraudulent result is threatening her crediblity and the veracity of her claims.
While declaring Ejikeme’s actual score of 249 and not 362, JAMB accused her of deliberately tempering with her result. The Head, Public Affairs and Protocol, JAMB, Dr Fabian Benjamin, said, Ejikeme “manipulated her UTME result to deceive the public and fraudulently obtained scholarship and other recognitions”.
Reacting to the development, Cornel Osigwe, Head of Corporate Communications at Innoson Group, said the company is undertaking serious investigation to find out the actual truth.
Osigwe said if the student is found guilty, Innoson Motors would withdraw the ₦3 million scholarship.
“We’re doing our independent investigation on the issue of manipulation, if we found that the girl in question willfully manipulated her result, we shall withdraw the scholarship, but if we observe she is innocent of the accusation, then the scholarship stands, whether she is the best or not”, Osigwe said.
However, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria, Osigwe said, “It is strange to us because we did our independent verification and found out that Mmesoma Ejikeme actually scored 362, when we printed her result.”
He added that when Ejikeme made the claim that she had the highest score in the 2023 UTME, the company waited for JAMB to confirm it before awarding the scholarship, but the exam body failed to do so.
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