Following the controversy surrounded by Miss Mmesoma Ejikeme, the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), who scored 263 aggregates which the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has discovered to be fake, the Anambra State government said on Sunday, declared that it has instituted a panel of inquiry to unravel the circumstances surrounding the forgery allegations.
Professor Ngozi Chuma-Udeh, the Anambra state Commissioner for Education, while addressing the newsmen on the issue, said the development is very embarrassing, while regretting that the unfortunate issue came at a time the Professor Chukwuma Soludo – led administration was repositioning and getting education right in the state.
The Commissioner also stated that the security agencies are investigating the allegation of falsification of results levelled against Miss Mmesoma Ejikeme, adding that the state government has continued to celebrate Miss Nkechinyere Umeh, an indigene of the state, who was declared by JAMB as obtaining the highest score of 360 in the UTME
The Commissioner said the JAMB Registrar, Professor Ishaq Oloyede had at the 2023 policy meeting for tertiary institutions in Abuja, disclosed that Nkechinyere Umeh scored 360 marks to emerge the best in the examination.