JAMB: Soludo Sends Mmesoma On Three-Months Psychotherapy

The Anambra State Government disclosed that it has handed over 19-year-old Mmesoma Ejikeme, who forged her Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) result, to a psychotherapist for a compulsory three-month guidance and counselling

The state Commissioner for Education, Prof. Ngozi Chuma-Udeh, revealed this at a press briefing in her office in Awka, on Thursday.

Chuma-Udeh said Mmesoma would undergo a therapy class for three months as recommended by the state panel, which probed the UTME forgery case.

Recall that Mmesoma, a student of Anglican Girls Secondary School, Nnewi, recently made the headlines after the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board called her out for fraudulently manipulating her UTME score from 249 to 362, thereby falsely parading herself as UTME top scorer for 2023.

Before admitting the forgery, Mmesoma had engaged JAMB in accusations, which resulted in the exam body slamming a three-year ban on her.

On Wednesday, she appeared before a panel of the House of Representatives in Abuja, where she gave an apology to the exam body and pleaded for leniency.

Chuma-Udeh said, “We considered what Mmesoma did as ‘juvenile delinquency’ to which any child could fall victim. So, we are not going to throw the baby away with the bath water. She is now under a psychotherapist counsellor who will take her on therapy for three months after which the state government will appeal to JAMB management on behalf of her to reconsider one or two things.”