Dear Miss Mmesoma Ejikeme,
Before I proceed to the crux of this letter, let me partly introduce myself to you. I am one of the many who shouted themselves hoarse while standing on the altar of morality, legality and rationality to call for your crucification during your ordeal with the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB).
With benefit of hindsight, I have come to the shameful realization that those values have become extinct in the geographical location where you and I find ourselves.
Based on the foregoing, I hereby tender my unreserved apologies to you. This is not because you are exonerated of wrongdoing, but simply because I hastily joined the bandwagon in vilifying an offender whose crime epitomizes a generic national malaise.
Many of those who joined me in calling for your head have suddenly become New Covenant adherents and surprisingly discarded the Mosaic law which was applied to you with stiff stipulations that certain sins come with a penalty of getting stoned to death. I drop my pebble.
Let it be put on record that my turncoat disposition is driven by recently acquired incontrovertible evidences at my disposal. This is coming from a hallowed place of my volitional conviction.
First of all, it was established by the examining body, JAMB, that you sat for the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) and scored a handsome grade of 249. Permit me to use the term “beautiful grade” because at least, your gender is not subject to debate. It is incontestable that you are female.
By all ramifications, that is a mark way above the threshold and should at the minimum, guarantee you admission into a tertiary institution. Irrespective of the fact that you falsified your score to 362, pardon me for not considering that it is now “expediently” trite that one cannot forge what one already has.
As pedestrian as this argument is, one still needs a zebra-crossing to conveniently navigate it without looking ridiculously stupid. Kindly note that I’m not a Lawyer by any stretch of the imagination.
Secondly, parading yourself as the top scorer in the 2023 UTME with a manipulated score of 362 does not in any way disprove the fact that you wrote the exams and passed with flying colours. That is the new basic requirement.
Thirdly, upon affirmation by the issuing body that the 362 result you paraded did not emanate from it, your cries to the rooftops that you “legitimately” sourced it from a “third-party vendor” which is accredited by JAMB fell on deaf ears. Recent events have now vindicated you.
Whether by providence or sheer twist of fate – you became an unsolicited beneficiary of the outright circumvention of an entire nation’s judicial system to suit the yearnings of one man – I am not talking about the court of public opinion here. You got an amnesty you didn’t bargain for.
Just maybe the age-old doctrine by the English Jurist, William Blackstone that “it is better that 10 guilty persons escape, than that 1 innocent person suffers” perfectly suffices here. Count yourself lucky my little friend.
Ultimately, you should consider it a privilege to be mentioned in the same breath as one of the few men alive who possess the uncanny ability to legalize criminality.
For now, just go and sin no more.
Respectfully,
Martins Onyeike.
martinsemenogu03@gmail.com
