Posted by Asari Dokubo, a former leader of the Niger Delta insurgency, has cast doubt on Mmesoma Ejikeme’s claimed age as a JAMB applicant.
Dokubo speculated that Mmesoma’s age had been changed before she took the UTME, the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination.
The ex-militant commander voiced his confusion about Mmesoma’s claim that he is 19 years old and writing JAMB, given that his own children graduated high school at the ages of 15 and 16.
Dokubo claims, “I have actually checked the little girl’s details, and I observed that there is the possibility that her age was altered before she sat for the exam.”
She’ll be 19 when my kids graduated high school at 15 and 16; if that’s not the case, I don’t see why she’ll be taking JAMB at that age. In her, I saw the year 2004.
There is no doubt that we are aware of these facts, but we may decide not to discuss them. I have to say something now because I am annoyed by what others have said. Some people feel most at ease with an obviously false statement.
You may remember that Mmesoma, a student at Anglican Girls Secondary School in Nnewi, Anambra State, and JAMB had a run-in regarding Mmesoma’s UTME score.
Mmesoma had originally claimed to have got 362 on her UTME, but JAMB suspected that she had forged the result.
The testing organisation argued that the 19-year-old only got a 249 out of a possible 362.
After much debate, Mmesoma finally admitted that her final score was 249.