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Court awards NCBA Sh534m for erroneous asset valuations
Another expensive lesson in the high-stakes world of banking and professional advice has just landed in court. This time, the beneficiary is NCBA Bank Kenya, which has been awarded Sh534 million after the court found that faulty asset valuations caused the bank massive financial loss.
The dispute revolved around professional valuers who were engaged to assess property used as security for loans. As often happens in banking, the figures on those valuation reports became the backbone of the lending decision. The problem? The court found that the assets had been significantly overvalued.
When the borrower later defaulted, the bank moved to realize the securities. Reality then hit hard: the properties could not fetch anything close to what the valuation reports had promised. The gap between the paper value and the real market value left the bank staring at a huge financial hole.
NCBA sued, arguing that the valuers had breached their professional duty of care. According to the bank, the inflated valuations induced it to issue facilities it would otherwise have reconsidered or structured differently.
The court agreed.
In its judgment, the court held that professional valuers owe a duty to exercise reasonable skill, diligence, and accuracy when preparing valuation reports, particularly where financial institutions rely on those reports to make lending decisions. The court found that the reports in question fell below acceptable professional standards and directly exposed the bank to loss.
The result: Sh534 million in damages awarded to NCBA.
The message from the bench was clear, valuation reports are not decorative paperwork for loan files. They are serious professional instruments with real financial consequences.
Bad valuation can collapse an entire credit decision. And when it does, someone will eventually be asked to explain how a Sh200 million property suddenly becomes a Sh80 million reality at auction.
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