Mmesomma Ejikeme: Governor Soludo Gives Fresh Directive
- The governor of Anambra State, Professor Charles Soludo, has issued a fresh directive on Mmesomma Joy Ejikeme, the UTME candidate who confessed to inflating her result
- Governor Soludo said Ejikeme should be handed over to the State Guidance Counselor and Professor of Clinical Psychology
- This was disclosed in a statement signed by the commissioner for education in Anambra State following the recommendations of the panel of investigation
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Awka, Anambra - Charles Soludo, the governor of Anambra State, has ordered that the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) candidate, Mmesomma Joy Ejikeme, who confessed to inflating her 2023 result, should be taken care of by the State Guidance Counselor and Professor of Clinical Psychology.
This was disclosed in a letter to the principal of the Anglican Girls Secondary School in Nnewi, where the governor ordered immediate psychological counselling and therapy session for the candidate, The Nation reported.
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On Thursday, Mmesomma Joy Ejikeme admitted that she inflated her UTME result that she had been parading herself with on Thursday, July 6.
Mmesomma Ejikeme: Governor Soludo handed the UTME candidate to the counselling unit
The governor's directive was disclosed in a letter signed by Prof. Ngozi Chuma-Udeh, the state's commissioner for education, and it was done as a result of the recommendation by one of the panels of investigation that Soludo constituted.
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In the letter signed by the Commissioner for Education, Prof. Ngozi Chuma-Udeh, the governor said the directive followed one of the panel's recommendations to investigate the matter.
The statement partly read:
“The directive is in line with one of the recommendations of the Committee set up by Anambra State Government to investigate the matter, following the parading of the fake results which elicited interests and generated controversy and misgivings the general public.”
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Legit.ng earlier reported that Mmesoma Ejikeme, the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) candidate, who was accused of inflating her score from 249 to 362 by the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), has generated lots of reactions in the recent time.
Over the year, JAMB has nabbed many candidates over manipulating their UTME results. Still, none of them is as viral as that of Mmesoma Ejikeme, a student of the Anglican Girls Secondary School (AGSS) in Nnewi, Anambra State.
Source: Legit.ng
