News from PRIUMIUMTIMES reports that the house of Representatives has urged the JOINT Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) to stop any punitive actions against Mmesoma Ejikeme over falsification of her JAMB score. The Lawmaker who made this adopted this motion is Awaji-inombek Abiante a PDP Rep from Bayelsa.

Even though the Head of Public Affairs and Protocol, Fabian Benjamim in a statement on July 2 accused Mmesoma of manipulating her scores and consequently banned her from writing Examination for three years, Mmseoma has come out to defend herself that she printed the result from the JAMB website, but the Exam Board disputed her claims. Mmesoma had been brilliant from nursery through Primary to secondary school which the lawmaker premise his decision by saying that she came first in all her Examinations and therefore incapable of manipulating her scores. According to him, cognizant of the fact that uploading or downloading results of examination or polls electronically is a glitch that can occur in Nigeria anytime, therefore, the need to establish facts before any blames. The house therefore set up an ad hoc committee to investigate the alleged manipulation and report back within one week for further legislative action.