July 03, (THEWILL) – The Anambra State Government has set up a panel of inquiry into the controversy trailing the highest scorer in the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
Commissioner for Education, Prof. Ngozi Chuma-Udeh, made this known in a statement on Monday.
“A panel of inquiry has been set up to work with security agents to investigate the allegation of falsification of result levelled against Mmesoma Ejikeme, who had earlier been showcased in the social media as having scored the highest”, she said.
THEWILL recalled that Ejikeme, a student of Anglican Girls Secondary School, Uruagu in Nnewi, had earlier been celebrated for emerging top scorer in the 2023 UTME.
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), had in a statement on Sunday, accused Ejikeme of inflating her actual result from 249 to 362.
In her reaction, Prof. Chuma-Udeh described the controversy on the girl’s actual result as embarrassing, especially coming at a time Gov. Chukwuma Soludo was repositioning the education sector in Anambra.
Meanwhile, the state government has commended Nkechinyere Umeh who was declared by JAMB as the highest scorer nationwide with a cumulative mark of 360 in the 2023 UTME.
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