By: Uche Aguoru
On the Nmesoma vs JAMB saga, I have trained myself to see issues dispassionately no matter the sentimental push, I try to go for balance in every issue.
Folks are now playing Tribal cards and directly accusing the examination body of ethnic bias against the little girl, not minding that from JAMB,s official record the overall best is from Anambra state.
Nmesoma’s father Mr Ejikeme, said, JAMB is envious of her daughter and wants to run her down
I have repeatedly listened to the smart, intelligent, 19 year old Nmesoma Ejikeme and I have also been patient enough to listen to JAMB,s side of the story.
Nmesoma said she got the printout from the JAMB portal, but JAMB is insisting that the smart and brilliant Nmesoma who claimed to have scored 362 as her aggregate has questions to answer as to how she arrived at the result she is parading that won her Innosons 3 million Naira scholarship.
The Wahala be say, JAMB said in their records no candidate scored 362, so what happened?
The DSS got involved but unfortunately they don’t owe us public explanation as to what their findings are and I see a nexus between the 3 years ban on Nmesoma and the DSS findings.
Let me digress, my son is 14 and he is IT proficient and to my amazement the guy knows so much about the Internet and how to manipulate it using online apps that I don’t even know exist,
I will encourage guys to always go close to their children, be their friend and search them out once in a while you will be amazed at how much knowledge of the internet they possess and how they can manipulate it to achieve whatever they want.
But Nmesoma said she lacks the capacity for such manipulation “I AGREE” after all she is Igbo, and nwa chineke
But JAMB is insisting that no body scored that much in their records, and that Nmesoma’s aggregate was 249, I also believe them after all they are the only body with the sole authority to mark exam scripts and award aggregates
Its natural for us to blame JAMB because of the minor blips that usually occur in their centers and Result portals but from the verifications that has been conducted using the QR code, the name on the result Nmesoma is parading belongs to Asimiyu Mariam Omobolanle”, and she sat for the UTME in 2021 scoring 138. JAMB claimed the printout she is displaying was outdated in 2021 and that there are many Fake JAMB Result Apps in different play stores.
JAMB had also released her actual UTME RESULT Slip that has her photograph and the score was 269
Yes, JAMB rigged Nmesoma’s result because she is an Igbo girl and biafra wants to secede, oh, I forgot she is of the same tribe with Peter Obi?
Why cant we pause for a second and ask ourselves what JAMB will want to achieve by denying her of her correct scores?
I believe we will do better if we begin to take on issues strictly on its worth and not based on sentiments and biases….
Uche Aguoru writes from Umuahia
