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The National Bank of Kenya (NBK) has announced mass property auctions in a fresh bid to recover Sh22 billion owed by 30 borrowers.
The bank said it has hired top lawyers to pursue the outstanding loans, marking its first step in reducing non-performing loans (NPLs) just weeks after KCB Group sealed the purchase of NBK in a share swap deal.
The defaulted loans are equivalent to 68.7 percent of the Sh32 billion gross non-performing loans on NBK books as at the end of September.
Paul Russo, the NBK managing director who was tapped from KCB to oversee the integration, said the bank will hire “hardcore lawyers” to pursue intentional defaulters and clean up the loan mess that was brought by weak oversight.
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