Vodafone presents prizes to winners

Accra, Sept. 16, GNA - Vodafone Ghana on Wednesday presented prizes to winners in the first monthly draw of the "Vodafone Rewards" promotion. The ultimate prize in the monthly draw was a 40,000-dollar 4x4 Mitsubishi Pajero and it was won by Joe Habib, a 34-year-old bachelor from Wa in the Upper West Region, who works as a manager with Asare Original Pay All, a private lottery company. Habib told the GNA that he did not have to spend any extra money to win the prize but only registered and kept topping up and using his Vodafone credit as he had always done.

"This is my first time of owning a car - I can't drive but I will keep it and learn how to drive," said an elated Habib. He came to the presentation with three sisters, five brothers and an uncle, all of whom reside in Accra. Habib said: "This car is the best Sallah gift from Allah to me." He said he would keep the car in Accra until after the Sallah festivities before making stops in some selected regions on the way to Wa. "We will visit some of the renowned citizens of our region who reside in Accra, then to Cape Coast, then to my friends at Koforidua in the Eastern Region then to the Kumasi, through Brong Ahafo before finally going to Wa," he said.

Two other persons, Captain Retired Emmanuel Kofi Bosomtwe and Ms Mary Antwiwaa, 42, won Dell laptops. Capt. Rtd Bosomtwe, Head of Security at Chronicle offices in Kumasi, told the GNA his son, a second year BSc. Psychology student at the University of Cape Coast, had been pestering him for a laptop for a long time now.

"God has answered my prayers - I'll give the laptop to my son to facilitate his education," he said. Ms. Antwiwaa also came with her son, Oscar Effah, a second year Accounting student at Takoradi Polytechnic, to whom she intends to give the laptop.

Ms. Edem Gordor, a final year Business Administration student at the Institute of Professional Studies (IPS), won a GH¢2,000 scholarship.

"This money has come at the right time because I need it to pay my final year fees and also to undertake my project work and buy some school stuff," she said.

Others also won Vodafone branded phones, ipods and modems. The Vodafone Rewards Promotion worth US$2.2 million was launched in July and it seeks to reward Vodafone customers with cars, motor bikes, phones, ipods, modems, and laptops. In the ultimate draw slated for October ending, one winner would take home a four-bedroom house at Trasacco Valley plus a 4x4 Mitsubishi Pajero, worth one million dollars. 16 Sept. 09