By Mohammed Bello Doka
The former Presidential adviser and PDP Chieftain has described the formation of a committee by Anambra State Government to investigate the circumstances and the truth behind the embattled 19 years old Mmesoma for allegedly doctoring her Jamb result.
Mmesoma's case has drawn nationwide outrage after the Examination body JAMB declared that Mmesoma's so-called result was fake, the body also proved beyond reasonable doubt that the result does not in any way emanate from the Exam body.
But unsurprisingly, a good number of Southesterners faulted the move by JAMB and threw their weight behind Mmesoma, until pressure from the public and JAMB's threat to prosecute the girl led her to confess in a National TV.
Despite her confession, Anambra State Government went ahead to constitute a high-powered committee of professors and other members of the Academia to investigate the incidence with a hope to exonerate Mmesoma who is their State's indigine.
Fortunately and unfortunately for Anambra State, the committee concluded that Mmesoma forged her result, which laid the matter to rest. But Mr. Omokri has faulted the waste of time and resources in what he called fruitless effort. In a post on his Facebook page, the controversial politician posited thus.
“Why would the Anambra State Government set up a high-powered committee, filled with Professors and PhDs, to investigate Mmesoma Ejikeme's JAMB result? The result is obviously fake. The owner of the center where she took the exam (Ostia Chidoka), has revealed that it is questionable. The girl (more accurately, WOMAN) herself admitted as much during her Channel's TV interview.”
“JAMB is not cheating Anambra State. They have acquitted themselves excellently in this regard. They came up with documentary proof to show any objective onlooker that this is a case of pure criminality, devoid of ethnic bias. Anambra State is cheating itself by wasting human and material resources on a lie. Henceforth, they should not complain that their federal allocation is not enough. They obviously have money to waste! This is what happens when you make a criminal matter an ethnic issue.”
“Indigenes of Kaduna, Osun, Lagos and Oyo states were also accused of fraud by JAMB. Those ones went to hide and bury their heads in shame, because they know their ethnic groups and states have little tolerance for their criminality. But Mmesoma was bold because she knew she would get support."
"Why not? She has already seen how the owners of structurally defective buildings at Alaba market got support purely based on their ethnicity, despite being warned since 2017. She saw how some Nigerians used their ethnicity to almost paralyse the evacuation efforts of Nigerians in Sudan. So, she had enough examples to make her confident that she could get away with it."
"And she is right. Instead of her being shamed by the Anambra State Government, she is being protected. The same Anambra State Government that did not constitute a high-powered panel of inquiry to find out who was behind the killings of @USinNigeria embassy staff in Anambra on May 16, 2023, or to fish out those who killed a pregnant Northern Muslim woman, Harira Jubril, and her four underaged children, were crudely murdered in cold blood on the streets of Anambra State, with her four underage daughters, Fatima 9 years, Khadija 7 years, Hadiza 5 years, and Zaituna 2 years, has now put together a powerful committee to protect refuge golden girl (or woman), Mmesoma!"
"If I was the Governor of Anambra, the first high powered committee I would set up would be a committee of Anambra's brightest and most brilliant minds to look into how to put an end to the menace of IPOB's Monday Sit-at-Home, that is costing my state billions of Naira weekly, as well as the malaise of insecurity caused by unknown gunmen."
"But no. Anambra State does not have time for that. Their money and time is better spent constituting a committee of professors to investigate a JAMB result whose fakery you can spot in less than five minutes."
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