The Anambra State Government has sent Mmesoma Ejikeme, a student of Anglican Girls Secondary School, Nnewi who forged her JAMB examination result, to undergo a therapist class for three-month guidance and counselling.
Speaking at a press briefing in Akwa, the State Commissioner for Education, Prof. Ngozi Chuma-Udeh, said Mmesoma would undergo a therapy class for three months as recommended by the state panel, which probed the UTME forgery case.
Mmesoma, on Wednesday, appeared before a panel of the House of Representatives in Abuja, where she tendered an apology to the exam body and pleaded for leniency.
The Commissioner recalled that a panel set up by the state to investigate the matter recommended that the teenager should be made to undergo a psychological counselling and therapy.
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”.
She commended Anambra State Governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, for approving the psychotherapy class for Mmesoma.
Recalled that Mmesoma a 19-years-old fraudulently manipulated her UTME score from 249 to 362, thereby presenting her result as the highest score for UTME 2023.
Before admitting the forgery, Mmesoma had engaged the Joint Admission Matriculation Board, JAMB, in accusation and counter-accusation, with the exam body slamming a three-year ban on her.
