UTME highest scorer: Anambra institutes panel of inquiry
By Emma Ogbuehi
The Government of Anambra State has instituted a panel of inquiry into the controversy trailing the highest scorer in the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
Education Commissioner, Prof. Ngozi Chuma-Udeh who disclosed this at a media chat, regretted that the development was very embarrassing, coming at a time when the Charles Soludo-led administration is repositioning in her avowed determination to get education right in the State.
Confusion has arisen on who between Mmesoma Ejikeme and Nkechiyere Umeh, both from Anambra, is the highest scorer in the UTME. JAMB had on Sunday, disowned the result paraded by Mmesoma.
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Meanwhile the Anambra State Government has continued to celebrate Nkechinyere Umeh, who was declared the highest by JAMB, having scored a cumulative mark of 360, while security agents are investigating the allegation of falsification of result levelled against Ejikeme Mmesoma, who had earlier been showcased in the social media as having scored the highest.
JAMB had while announcing the confusion on Mmesoma’s score, threatened to withdraw her actual results for allegedly falsely announcing herself as the top-scorer of the computer-based test used to rank candidates seeking admissions into Nigerian universities.
According to the Board, Miss Mmesoma’s actual score in the test was 249 and not the 362 she claimed to have scored.
The Board stated: “The attention of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has been drawn to several publications in both print and online media celebrating certain candidates for being high scorers in the 2023 UTME.
“The Board is constrained to set the records straight and wishes to state unequivocally that many of the results which many of these candidates are parading are fake.”
JAMB said the candidate’s ‘fake result’ was exposed when a top official of the Anambra State Government reached out to JAMB for confirmation of the claim ahead of a planned honour.