Three Tigo Rwanda customers have won Frw 21
million in total playing the Imvura y’Amafaranga promotion. The trio; Patient
Niyibizi, Jean Pierre Usabuwera and Faustin Nkundayesu have won Frw 8
million, Frw 5 million and Frw 8 million respectively. Niyibizi and Nkundayesu
join Primary school teacher Delphine Nyirangirimana Irangaza in becoming the
only winners of the Frw 8 million grand prize so far.
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| Patient Niyibizi |
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| Usabuwera Jean Pierre |
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| Faustin Nkundayesu |
Tigo Rwanda launched the 90-day Imvura y’Amafaranga (Raining
Money) promotion on 28 June. Participants stand a chance win daily prizes from
Rwf 100,000 to Rwf 8 million; monthly prizes from Rwf 1 million to Rwf 8
million; and on the final day a jackpot between Rwf 5 million and Rwf 20
million.
So far, cash prizes worth over Rwf 65 million have been won by
165 lucky winners.
Recounting his story, Faustin
Nkundayesu, a 28-year-old Kimironko, Gasabo District resident, said that
he couldn’t believe that he had won.
“I received a call from a lady at 7:30 pm who then asked me my
name. At first I refused to tell her thinking that she was trying to scam me. I
later relented and told me my name. She then asked if I had played Imvura
y’Amafaranga and I replied ‘yes’. She told me that I had won Frw 100,000 and
then invited me to the TV1 studios to find out whether I would win the grand
prize of Frw 8 million. To be honest I didn’t think I would win the money. So
when I won Frw 8 million all I could do was kneel down and praise God. I have
never even owned Frw 200,000 so imagine having Frw 8million”, the married man
said excitedly.
Jean Pierre Usabuwera, 34
years old and married with two children lives in Kimisagara, Nyarugenge
District. He owns a bar and the Frw 5 million that he won in Imvura
y’Amafaranga will improve his family’s future.
“With the winnings, I shall reinvest in my bar business,
renovate and expand my house and use the remainder of the money to invest in
other small businesses. To those who don’t believe that they can win money in
the Imvura y’Amafaranga promotion, I urge them to try. You never know what God
has in store for you. You must try your luck”, he says.
Revealing his plans for his Frw 8 million winnings,
Faustin said;
“Today I live in a rental house. So the first thing that I shall
do is buy a house for my wife and I so that we don’t have to worry about rent
any more. I shall give Frw 50,000 to my church and then will get ten poor and
vulnerable Rwandans and pay their Mutuelles de Sante (health insurance) for a
year”
“I am so thankful to Tigo for putting together the Imvura y’Amafaranga
promotion. It has changed my life and the life of my family forever”.
“Our customers are ambitious, happy people who have big
dreams for themselves and their families,” said Yaw Ankoma Agyapong, Chief
Commercial Officer at Tigo Rwanda. “This promotion is an opportunity for us to
give back to our customers and empower them to achieve their dreams and
aspirations. As we grow, we want our customers to grow with us.”
Tigo Rwanda subscribers can take part in the promo every day by
sending an SMS to 155, calling 155 or dialing *155#. Each entry costs Rwf 100
with unlimited entries allowed per day. Each day there is a random draw to
select 3 winners to win a guaranteed prize of Rwf 100,000.
The three daily winners are then invited to a live daily Show on
TV One where they compete with each other by taking turns to spin a wheel. The
person who obtains the highest number on the wheel then moves on to spin a
second wheel, which has cash prizes ranging from Rwf 200,000 to Rwf 8 million.
In addition to the daily prizes, every month there will be a Big
Monthly Prize where among all participants of the previous month, three
customers will be selected in a random draw. The three winners will again have
the opportunity to spin the wheels and one of them will play for a chance to
win between Rwf 1 million and Rwf 8 million.
On the last day of the promotion, a jackpot draw will be held
with 3 randomly selected participants among all who played in the promo. They
will play against each other to win Rwf 5 million to Rwf 20 Million.
About
Tigo Rwanda
Currently,
Tigo Rwanda has over three million customers and has invested over US $310
million from 2009 to date. Tigo Rwanda provides 4G LTE on mobile
for both prepaid and post-paid customers. Tigo Rwanda was awarded as the
‘Most Innovative Service’ at Africa Com 2014, for international mobile money
transfers with integrated currency conversion between Tigo Rwanda and Tigo
Tanzania. In 2016 Tigo Rwanda became the first telecom operator in Africa to
sign the Connected Women Commitment Initiative.
Tigo
Rwanda is owned by Millicom, a leading telecommunications and media company
uniquely dedicated to emerging markets in Latin America and Africa. It provides
mobile, mobile financial, cable and satellite services to more than 60 million
customers in thirteen countries, primarily under the Tigo brand. Tigo has been
operating in Africa since 1993, in Rwanda since 2009, and serves more than 26
million customers in Africa.
