Ruth Makowa from Chikwawa Greenbelt in Salima district is one of the three Airtel lucky customers and lucky customer from central region to walk home with K5 million grand prize money in Airtel Tisanje Promotion.
Three winners from each region were unveiled on Friday during the final draw of Tisanje Promotion and each has won K5 million. However, two lucky customers from South and Northern regions could not be reached when Airtel tried to call them to break the news.
"Am very thankful of this prize money!" said excited Makowa in a phone call "Am going to start a nice business which am very hopeful it will help me a lot"
Makowa, said she previously worked as domestic worker but her husband works as electrician and mechanic at Greenbelt.
Meanwhile Airtel Money Country Director Francis Matseketsa said Airtel is excited that its Promotions are not only satisfying but also changing lives of customers.
He said giving out prizes to the lucky winners in the promotion is a true commitment from Airtel that it does not make empty promises but can only promise what it can deliver.
"…and for customer satisfaction, our commitment is always guaranteed" Matseketsa added while thanking customers for their overwhelming support throughout the promotion and promised for more exciting offers from Airtel.
He also disclosed that throughout the promotion the company got overwhelming response due to increased recharges, Airtel Money registrations and transactions which went up to 35% and subscriber base growth by 3%
"Tisanje as the name suggests has ably made our hundreds of our customers reap lucrative amounts of money" said Matseketsa
Matseketsa also promised that Airtel will reach and inform the winning numbers before the close of business of the day.
If we don't, he said "We have mechanisms in our network where we can tell exact location they are. Normally our numbers from a network point of view, they are known and picked that they are operating within such areas. Also we have sales team on the ground; we will go to the details of Know Your Customer (KYC) where we can go deeper and see if they provided us with their addresses."
Since its inception in August this year, Tisanje has made 300 people win K50 thousand chash prizes and 112 people win K100 thousand cash prizes weekly. Now, with the final draw where three lucky people from each region won a cool K5 million, in total Tisanje has splashed out a total sum of K41.2 million.
