The Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) has made a debt recovery of N22.79 billion in 2010, as against the N20.77 billion it recovered in 2009, Alhaji Umaru Ibrahim, its Managing Director, has said.
Ibrahim disclosed this in the 2010 Annual Report and Statement of Account of the NDIC, a copy of which was given to newsmen in Abuja.
“The total cumulative recovery made by the NDIC in 2010 was N22.79 billion, as against N20.77 billion in 2009, representing an increase of over N2billion or about 9.7 per cent,’’ he said.
He said that in 2010, the corporation embarked on a number of aggressive debt recovery activities to facilitate and enhance liquidation dividends being paid to depositors.
Ibrahim said that the corporation used debt recovery agents and relevant law enforcement agencies, as well as the Assets Management Company of Nigeria (AMCON) to achieve the debt recovery.
“The NDIC has commenced discussions with AMCON to use its platform to dispose some of the risks assets of `banks-in-liquidation’.
“The NDIC has completed the segregation of all accounts, with outstanding balances of N100 million and above, and 174 accounts will be off-loaded to AMCON as soon as it takes off,’’ he added.
On the closed micro-finance banks (MFBs), Ibrahim said that that NDIC had compiled all the necessary information on 76, out of 104closed banks.
He said that the payment of their insured deposits commenced on Dec. 6, 2010.
`As at Dec. 31, 2010; NDIC had paid over N559.2 million to 18, 520 depositors of the affected micro-finance banks.
“It is noteworthy that the payment was effected with minimum delay from the date of closure.
“The NDIC had since intensified efforts at obtaining the required information from the rest 27 MFBs, so that payment to affected depositors could commence in January 2011.’’
Ibrahim said that as at Dec. 31, 2010, the corporation had also paid a total of N7.597 billion to insured depositors of the banks-in-liquidation.
He said that apart from the payment of insured sums, the NDIC had the additional responsibility of settling the claims of uninsured depositors, creditors and shareholders of the closed banks by paying liquidation dividends.
“The sum of N69.9 billion had been paid as liquidation dividends to 248,822 depositors as at the end of year 2010.
“The payment included the uninsured portion of private sector depositors of 11 out of the 13 banks closed in 2006.’’
Ibrahim said that at the end of 2010, N1, 500.33 million was earmarked for some creditors of the banks-in-liquidation, out of which the NDIC had paid N848.127 million to creditors who had filed their claims.
He also said that the cumulative liquidation dividends declared for the shareholders of three banks-in-liquidation as at Dec. 31, 2010 stood at N1, 513 million, out of which N1, 285.65 million had been paid.
Ibrahim noted that the cumulative dividends paid to uninsured depositors of the banks, under the “purchase as assumption arrangement’’, as at December 2010 totaled N63.52 billion, as against N59.443 billion paid in December 2009, reflecting an increase of N4.08 billion.