The Zamfara State House Of Assembly has indicted the chairman of the State’s Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), Murtala Jangebe, in a N747.2 million fraud.

A report by a panel set up by the assembly to investigate the operations of the SUBEB accused Mr Jangebe of operating 15 different bank accounts in separate banks from which he makes frivolous and unwarranted withdrawals without approvals from either the board or the governor of the state.

Amongst the findings of the panel are several discrepancies in the board’s accounts including a ‘pensions account’ operated in Ecobank, where the indicted chairman allegedly made illegal expenditure of N148.6 million without any approval.

Part of the panel’s report reads, “due to excessive misappropriation of public funds entrusted upon the present chairman, Murtala Jangebe, the committee does not have trust in him to administer the Zamfara state universal basic education board.

“As a result, the committee recommends that prosecution be made for criminal disregard to laid down financial regulations for all those found guilty through the state attorney general.”