Mmesoma Ejikeme, a 19-year-old student, has come under fire
for allegedly parading a fake Joint
Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) Unified Tertiary
Matriculation Examination (UTME) result.
Ejikeme was initially celebrated for scoring 362 in the 2023
examination, a result that would make her the highest scorer, but the board has
come out to say the result she parades is false.
One key argument JAMB made was that the slip Ejikeme paraded
was last used in 2021, and the QR code attached reveals a result belonging to
one Asimiyu Mariam Omobolanle with a 138 score.
Ejikeme, in a video released on Monday, maintained her innocence, but the debate has raged on. JAMB said her result might have been the work of forgers who pull off pranks to show friends, so FIJ looked into this claim.
OUR ANALYSIS
FIJ checked Google Playstore for applications that could
help one manipulate UTME results and found one called ‘JambFun-Fake Jamb Result
Maker’.
This app helps users create fake UTME results to “fool your friends!”
screenshot captured on fake JAMB UTME result app
We observed that this slip matched the one paraded by
Ejikeme. It is the same slip JAMB discontinued in 2021.
What we did afterwards was fill out the form with sample
details to see if it would produce a result similar to the one paraded by
Ejikeme. Our finding was staggering.
Jamb result created on the app by Fij
This result confirmed that one could get a result identical
to the one Ejikeme paraded, but did not confirm it was the same app she used to
obtain hers.
With the result we forged via the app, FIJ, a candidate in
an exam it did not sit for, scored 400 in UTME.
We then went further to scan the QR code, and what we found
was more revealing.
The result of our scan showed “11231597AC :: Asimiyu Mariam
Omobolanle :: 138”, the same result we obtained when we scanned Ejikeme’s
paraded result.
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| Result obtained from QR code scan |
FIJ took notice of a tweet published by one Chijioke
Chimeziri on Monday. Reacting to a video published by Ejikeme, in which she
revealed that her QR code showed another candidate’s name, Chimeziri had
attached another result allegedly belonging to Ejikeme, but with a different QR
code claiming she scored 362.
We observed that the QR code on this result appeared superimposed on the result, as the code was on a bright shade of white, while the result was on a shade of green. It was doctored.
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| claim made by Chimeziri |
More claims arose by members of the public claiming people
had suffered the same fate in the hands of JAMB in the past.
One Atung Gerald, a native of Kaura, Kaduna State, allegedly
scored 380 in the UTME exam, but when we scanned the QR code attached to his
peddled result, it read the same “11231597AC :: Asimiyu Mariam Omobolanle ::
138”. All this points to one thing: the results came from one source with a
unique code that returns “11231597AC :: Asimiyu Mariam Omobolanle :: 138”. And
the source? ‘JambFun-Fake Jamb Result Maker’.
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| Gerald's alleged result |
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| scanned result |
FIJ went further to obtain two original results from
applicants who wrote the 2023 UTME exam. When we scanned their results however,
they returned a code that led nowhere. This simply means that codes attached to
original 2023 UTME results can’t return scores via the common QR Code – Barcode
Scanner.
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| scan on an original result |
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| scan done on an original result |
As of press time, Ejikeme had not changed her stance. JAMB
maintains a fraud was perpetrated, but it remains to be seen how the events
unfold.
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sir there is no app like this on the play store, mind sharing the link to the app?
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