Lawyer warns JAMB, Oloyede to apologize to Mmesoma or risk legal action.
A lawyer, Johnmary Maduakolam, has threatened to file a lawsuit against Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, and the board's management if they do not extend an apology to Mmesoma Ejikeme, a student from Anambra who was charged by JAMB with manually inflating her 2023 UTME result.
The attorney stated that Mmesoma was unable to fabricate her own results in a letter to Oloyede that our correspondent saw. Additionally, he charged JAMB with neglecting to safeguard the girl's identity.
He introduced himself as Chief Johnmary Akachukwu Maduakolam, a lawyer and the leader of the Johnmary Akachukwu Maduakolam Initiative for Education, a side project with a focus on education and the overall development of children.
I was astonished to read a press release from JAMB accusing Ms. Mmesoma Ejikeme, a minor and a student at the Anglican Girls Secondary School in Nnewi, Anambra State, of fabricating JAMB scores in order to win the favor of naïve philanthropists. Under your supervision, JAMB defamed the poor girl through that publication, subjected her to public ridicule, and, most importantly, failed to uphold its obligation to treat girls fairly under the Child's Right Act.
According to a report, JAMB stated in a statement on Sunday night that Ejikeme had manually enhanced her UTME score from 249 to 362, utilized this score to secure a N3 million scholarship from Innoson Motors, and was about to receive the award from the Anambra state government before she was found out.
The instance of Miss Ejikeme Joy Mmesoma, who claimed to have obtained a 362 on the UTME in 2023 and was given a N3 million scholarship by Chief (Dr.) Innocent Chukwuma, is the most pitiful of them all. When one of the Anambra State Government's top officials called JAMB to validate Miss Ejikeme Joy Mmesoma's claim, the Board informed the Board that Miss Ejikeme Joy Mmesoma had really scored 249 and not the 362 she claimed, delaying the Anambra State Government's plans to honor her. In order to deceive the public and illegally gain a scholarship and other recognitions, she had falsified her UTME score, according to JAMB.
"Paradoxically, material available in the media strongly shows that JAMB, and not the poor kid," wrote Maduakolam in the letter, "is culpable of dishing out phony results. However, even if the girl falsified her results, the law provides her some protection as a minor in the case.In light of the foregoing, I thus demand that you, on her behalf, immediately retract the malicious publication made against the kid, offer her an unqualified apology, and take efforts to guarantee that the trauma your actions caused is quickly softened.
Please take note that I will take you to court and charge you for it if you refuse to comply with my demands for the welfare of the child.
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