8th July, 2023
By Kazeem Ugbodaga
Critic, Reno Omokri has attacked Governor Charles Soludo’s Anambra government for not prosecuting Mmesoma Ejikeme, for forging her UTME’s score.
Ejikeme had at last admitted that she forged her Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination’s (UTME) score to read 362 when she actually scored 249.
The committee set up by Soludo to investigate the matter, after finding her guilty did not recommend her for prosecution but only asked her to apologise for her criminal action.
Reacting to this on Saturday, Omokri said “And to show the high tolerance for fraud by the Anambra State Government itself, their recommendations did not include the prosecution of Mmesoma Ejikeme for her fraudulent act.
“Instead of prosecution, they recommended that she undergo a psychological evaluation. Really? If you tried what Mmesoma did in Lagos or the Southwest, you would be prosecuted, as the Lagos State Government did to Oni Ololade, a LASPOTECH, who was jailed by Lagos for fraud.”
Omokri added: “But in Anambra, you will get a psychological evaluation at the state’s expense. Wow! What did Scripture say?
“When the sentence for a crime is not quickly carried out, people’s hearts are filled with schemes to do wrong.”-Ecclesiastes 8:11.
“This high tolerance for fraud and refusal by the state itself to punish it is why certain states in Nigeria have too many of their citizens in jail for drugs, romance scams, and fraudulent acts in a proportion that exceeds their ratio of the total Nigerian population.
“Unfortunately, the rest of us are treated like criminals in foreign airports the minute we produce our green passports. It is us, the innocent victims, who need psychological evaluation, not criminals like Mmesoma, who give Nigeria such a bad reputation at home and abroad.”