Embattled Mmesoma Ejikeme, who forged her Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination result, is to be taken to a psychotherapist for a three-month guidance and counselling.
The state Commissioner for Education, Prof. Ngozi Chuma-Udeh, revealed this in Awka, on Thursday.
Chuma-Udeh said the decision to send Mmesoma for the therapy was based on recommendation by the state panel, which probed the UTME forgery case.
Chuma-Udeh said the panel set up by the state to investigate the matter recommended that the teenager should be made to undergo a psychological counselling and therapy.
She 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.”
The commissioner said Governor Charles Soludo has approved approving the psychotherapy class for Mmesoma.
Nineteen-year-old Mmesoma, who was student of Anglican Girls Secondary School, Nnewi, after sitting a Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board examinations and fraudulently manipulated her UTME score from 249 to 362, and went ahead to declare herself top scorer for 2023.
She accused JAMB of the fraud only to turn around and confessed of responsibility for the falsification of her own results.
The JAMB consequently banned her for three years
Mmesoma appeared before a panel of the House of Representatives in Abuja, where she tendered an apology to the exam body and pleaded for leniency.
