ANAMBRA SETS UP PANEL TO PROBE FAKE UTME SCORE

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By Madu Obi

The Anambra State government has instituted a panel of inquiry to probe allegation of forgery of UTME score of 362 by Miss Mmesoma Ejikeme.

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has declared Mmesoma's score as fake,

The state Commissioner for Education, Professor Ngozi Chuma-Udeh, while speaking on the issue in Awka, described the development as very embarrassing.

She regretted that the unfortunate incident happened at a time the Professor Chukwuma Soludo - led administration was repositioning and getting education right in the state.

According to her, security agencies are already investigating the allegation of falsification of result levelled against Miss Mmesoma Ejikeme, who had earlier been showcased in the social media as having scored the highest in the examination.

She, however, said that the state government has continued to celebrate Miss Nkechinyere Umeh, an indigene of the state, who was declared by JAMB as scoring the highest in the UTME.

The Commissioner said the JAMB Registrar, Professor Ishaq Oloyede, at the 2023 policy meeting for tertiary institutions in Abuja, disclosed that Nkechinyere Umeh scored 360 marks to emerge the best in the examination.