Famous Nigerian entertainer and socio-political activist Charles Oputa, known by his stage name, Charly Boy, has waded into the controversy surrounding the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, the score of the Anambra schoolgirl Mmesoma Ejikeme. The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, or JAMB, reportedly accused Mmesoma of fabricating her score after initially claiming to have received the highest mark—362—in the 2023 UTME.
Mmesoma, who appeared in a Monday viral video interview, expressed surprise that the test body could declare a result she printed from the JAMB portal fraudulent without conducting a thorough investigation.
She angrily refuted the claim, claiming that she could not sway the outcome of her result.
Speaking on the matter, Charly Boy, who took to his Twitter handle on Monday night, expressed skepticism on the claim by JAMB.
He called on the board to make Mmesoma’s examination papers available for a remark by an external body.
He wrote,
“JAMB must produce her paper for an external body to remark. I don’t trust the mark they claim they awarded her right now.
“JAMB has ended up making the young girl popular and the girl on the other hand exposed JAMB corruption & ineptitude just like INEC.”
Cc: Twitter
