Civil society faults JAMB for banning Ejikeme Joy Nmesoma for 3 years

 

Maduako Igbokwe I Tuesday, July 04, 2023

 

AWKA, Nigeria –  A civil society group, Anambra State Civil Rights Concerns has faulted the decision of the  Joint Administration Matriculation Board JAMB to ban Miss Mmesoma Ejikeme from  sitting for Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination UMTE for three years.

The group also accused the Department of State  Services DSS of  usurping the powers of Nigerian Police Force to investigate  and to  prosecute in the was law Court

It further stated that both   DSS and JAMB  have no  the constitutional power to prosecute Miss Mmesoma Ejikeme over alleged falsification of results.

The Spokesman of the group,  Barr Paul Okoye who spoke with our correspondent  in Awka Anambra state said that  the two agencies  usurped  the powers of Nigerian Police by their actions. He said the  actions of both bodies are of no consequence because it was   done out of malice.

According to him,DSS is a secret body saddled with secret security information for the state and the country at large. He said that  it is not  the duty of the DSS to prosecute anybody accused of crime in Nigeria.

Okoye noted that  the job  which the DSS got itself involved is  of the Nigerian Police, stating that  the case of Nmesoma was very embarrassing to the DSS.

According to him, the three years ban placed on Nmesoma by JAMB was a show of   malice against the poor girl.

“JAMB cannot in good fate  place any ban on Nmesoma because she has made her position clear  that she obtained her result from the JAMB portal and JAMB is saying that she forged the result”

“At this point the Police has to come in and carry out a holistic investigation and not a wishy – washy investigation into the matter and it should be a discreet investigation where by at the end of such investigation it would be the duties of the police to prosecute her, if she must be prosecuted “

“I see the three year ban on the girl by JAMB as a move out of malice because she has made her position clear and if JAMB says otherwise the next step  is to first carry out an investigation before any form of punishment if found liable” he stated.