Giant Telcom firm Safaricom have awarded a third house in their Maisha Ni Mpesa Tu Promo. The lucky winner is Jennifer Kithure, a businesswoman from Maua in Meru County.
The mother of three was announced as this week’s winner on the company’s social media handles. Mrs. Kathure mainly uses M-PESA for her business transactions, for sending and receiving money. She also uses M-PESA as her bank and her wallet.
Congratulations to Jennifer Kathure this week’s #MaishaNiMPESATu apartment winner! pic.twitter.com/B3f733VUqt
— Safaricom PLC (@SafaricomPLC) July 20, 2018
James Njagi Waweru, 32, a Gikomba based artisan won the first house in the promotion early this month while Eric 49, a South African interior designer residing in Kenya won the second house last week.
Njagi, a father of one will soon be moving from his Kayole Junction single room into the two bedroomed master ensuite house at the Housing Finance developed posh estate. Njagi who says has never won anything in his life, is saying goodbye to Kayole Junction where he says, he has been sharing basic facilities with close to 100 other tenants.
“M-PESA is convenient in our jua kali trade as the service enables us to receive payments from customers and to make payments for our business supplies. My frequent usage has contributed to my earning of multiple entries in the ongoing promotion. However, it was quite a surprise when I received the call from Safaricom that I had won the apartment,” said Njagi.
Njagi had transacted more than Sh15,000, which had accumulated in excess of 1,500 points, which is what landed him his win. In the company of his mother and siblings, he told Home & Away: “This is my first home. Above all, it is located in Nairobi where everyone is looking up to owning a home.”
The ongoing M-Pesa Tu promotion is awarding customers and agents who will participate seven apartments in addition to daily and weekly prizes all worth over Sh300 million. “We began this promotion to reward our customers for their loyalty over the last 11 years and to recognize them for their contribution in making M-PESA most successful mobile money service in the world.
Today’s winner reflects the service’s ambition of transforming the lives of our customers,” said Safaricom’s Director of Finance Sitoyo Lopokoiyit.
Lindenberg, moved to Kenya six years ago and lives with his Kenyan wife and two kids. He won the apartments located in Nairobi’s Kahawa West estate, off Thika Road and the Eastern Bypass.
“I found the country undergoing exciting times amidst fast growth and a lot of development, which saw me make the decision to join my family here in Kenya,” said Lindenberg.
“From my first days, I have come to prefer M-PESA for most of my transactions as I find it convenient to use my phone when paying for fuel, shopping, making payments to other people and for booking the SGR on regular family trips to the Coast. It was a pleasant surprise when I received the call from Safaricom on Tuesday notifying me that I had won an apartment.”
In addition to the three apartment winners, more than 190,000 M-PESA customers and 1,900 agents have won instant cash prizes and float including of Sh2,000, Sh5,000 and Sh10,000.
“We are happy to see that the promotion winners reflect the diversity of M-PESA, which is a testament that it indeed is a mobile money service that brings the entire Kenyan society together. The promotion will continue for the next five weeks during which we will seek to reward even more of our customers for their loyalty,” said Jannet Atika, Director – Customer Operations, Safaricom.
The promotion began just over five weeks ago and seeks to reward M-PESA’s more than 28.6 million customers and 150,000 agents with KES 300 million in prizes.
Seven lucky customers and eight lucky agents stand to win an apartment and Sh1 million in float respectively.