Ejikeme Mmesoma: Group Kicks Against JAMB's 3-year Ban
EkoHotBlog reports that the National Association of Parent-Teacher Association of Nigeria (NAPTAN) has kicked against the three-year JAMB ban imposed on Miss Ejikeme Mmesoma.
Recall that Mmesoma who has been accused of falsifying her 2023 UTME result slip was on Tuesday banned from sigtting for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) by the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) for the next three years according to a statement signed by Fabian Benjamin, the board’s Acting Director, Press, and Publicity,
Reacting to the ban, NAPTAN says the decision was hasty.
“We think JAMB’s decision is hasty. The board should have carried out more due diligence, more discreet investigation before coming up with the ban,” Chief Adeolu Ogunbanjo, National Deputy Chairman of NAPTAN, said in an interview in Lagos on Tuesday.
Ogunbanjo said NAPTAN faulted JAMB’s approach on the issue, though he noted that the allegation against the girl is an unfortunate development.
According to the NAPTAN President, JAMB also did not do well in inviting the DSS to arrest the student even when the investigation had not been concluded.
He urged JAMB to handle the matter carefully as it could be a case of hacking.
“UTME is a technology-driven exercise so there could be hacking just like any other technology could as well be hacked,” Ogunbanjo said.
He, however, said the case was an eye-opener with some positive lessons.
“Students or people who may have been doing this in the past or planning to have their way through this dubious means should have a rethink because this issue has served as an eye-opener,” he said.
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