By Ginika Okoye

The Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) has engaged all stakeholders involved in the business of assets management to facilitate timely, credible valuation and transparent disposal of failed banks’ assets.

Mr Thompson Sunday, the Chief Executive Officer of NDIC, said at the Stakeholders Seminar and Public Relations Workshop, that delay in asset recovery could erode value.

Sunday, represented by Mr Oluyinka Ogungbemi, the Director, Asset Management Department of the Corporation, said the aim of the engagement was to broaden collaboration with stakeholders’ to improve failed banks’ assets recovery.

He said the workshop was aimed at ensuring higher loan and assets recovery and strengthening public confidence.

Sunday urged the stakeholders to uphold their professional conduct in the discharge of their duties, adding that the Corporation had zero tolerance for funds diversion in banks’ assets recovery.

”This seminar is not a routine gathering, it is a deliberate one.

”It is part of our strategic initiative of the Asset Management Department to improve asset realisation.

”’The first we aim to do is to strengthen our relationship with you (stakeholders).

”Secondly, we want to listen to you, to collate your feedback on the real challenges you face in the field while working for us.

”The ​‌‌‌⁠​​‍⁠⁠‍‍​‌‍‍‌‍‍‌​third reason is the fact that we hope that after the seminar, we will be able to onboard new stakeholders to this very important national assignment,” he said.

Sunday listed three classes of failed banks’ assets recovered by the Corporation to include risk assets, physical and investment assets.

He said that over and under valuation of some banks’ assets were challenges.

According to him, we have valuations that are like over the board and this makes it difficult for you to realise those assets when you test the market.

”So we need to agree on the valuation methods such that recovery is going to be much much easier,” he said.

Chukwuemeka Ani, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Branch Chairman of the Nigerian Institute of Estate Surveyors and Valuers (NIESV), said the institute had a cordial working relationship with the NDIC.

Ani said the workshop would help facilitate better and more fruitful relationship between the Corporation and the institute.

The workshop was organised by the Asset Management Department (AMD) of the Corporation. (NAN)

Edited by Ese E. Ekama-Williams