MTN CASH: Otafiire Wins Shs4.2M MoMo Nyabo Dime

By Francis Otucu

Two people, a Mulago Hospital health worker and a Najjeera businessman
are the maiden winners in MTN MoMoNyabo Promo.

MTN Uganda through its MoMoNyabo promotion is giving back to its
customers in form of cash prizes to help them rebuild financially and take
care of their accumulated bills following the economic disruption caused by COVID-19.

Dubbed “MoMoNyabo Together”, this year, winners stand a chance to win
hard cash for themselves and their loved ones or communities as opposed to the cars which were given out in the previous MoMo Nyabo promotions.
As a result, 28-year old Henry Otafiire, a business man living with his
parents in Najjera, a Kampala suburb was the first winner. He received a call from Patricko Mujuuko and Zahara Toto, hosts of this year’s show. Otafiire an ardent user of the MTN MoMo service successfully answered all four questions about the service correctly. Each question was worth 800,000 Uganda shillings.

At the end of the game, he managed to bag himself a whopping 4,200,000
Uganda shillings.

Bridget Kitimbo, a laboratory technologist with the Mulago hospital, sickle
cell department, was the second winner.

“It seemed like a big joke at first but I have been seeing the Prosper advert
on Television so I quickly believed that I was a winner!” said an excited
Kitimbo.
Kitimbo has been using MTN Mobile Money to buy airtime, internet data,
voice bundles and paying for her shopping using MoMo Pay. Unknown to her, she was automatically entered in to a draw. Subsequently, the MoMo Nyabo team visited her workplace where she had to answer a few simple questions to win cash.
Kitimbo won a total of Ugx 3,400,000 shillings. She took Ugx2,200,000
shillings while her father, James Kisambira got Ugx 1,200,000 shillings that
was instantly transferred to their phones. Her dummy cheque was presented to her by Emmanuel Thoryek, a Trade Manager from MTN Uganda. He encouraged her and all MTN subscribers to keep using MTN MoMo.

This year’s promotion has made it possible for winners to also nominate a
beneficiary, that way, also standing with another during these rather difficult times.

Kitimbo says that with the recent lock down, Public transport fares have been high, something that was a big challenge for her since she has to commute to work every day.

Above everything, Kitimbo’s greatest desire has for long been to upgrade
her education but she was limited by finances. However, with the money she won from the MTN MoMo Nyabo Together promotion, her dream can
materialize.

“Seeing is believing,” Kitimbo said as she received the mobile money
message alert. Her joy and excitement couldn’t be hidden.
Otafiire, an entrepreneur dealing in the production of yoghurt whose
business was hit during the lockdown said that he would now have capital to re-invest in his business. COVID really disrupted many businesses and
Otafiire’s was not an exemption. However, his continued MoMo transactions have seen him win some money that he is going to reinvest into his business.
Just like this year’s campaign slogan, MoMo Nyabo Together, Otafiire was
granted the opportunity to share the money he won with someone or
community of his choice. Of this money, Otafiire got to share 1.600,000
shillings with his beneficiary while he remained with 2,600,000 shillings His sister Nankunda Fiona reaped from this as she was nominated by Otafiire as a beneficiary. Otafiire when asked why he decided to choose his sister said, “We suffer together and enjoy together.”

Aggrey Byaruhanga MTN’s Regional Marketing Manager handed Otafiire his
dummy cheque and congratulated as well as thanked him for actively using the MTN service. Byaruhanga proceeded to send the money he had won to his mobile money wallet.
Otafiire’s sister wasn’t home at the time when the money was sent. However when Otafiire called her to confirm whether she had received her share of the money, an excited Nankunda could be heard over the phone screaming having confirmed that indeed she had received Ugx1,600,000 shillings.
Byaruhanga encouraged Ugandans to embrace the convenience that comes
with transacting using mobile money. According to him, one is able to go
about their different businesses at the comfort of their homes, offices and
anywhere else.

Otafiire encouraged all MTN subscribers to make good use of the MoMo
services because once one uses these services, they automatically stand a
chance to win and win big.
Apart from the winners called in studio, 250 people win 50,000 shillings
directly every day. All you have to do is pay using MTN MoMo and stand a
chance to win Use Mobile Money to pay for everything including airtime,
data, voice bundles, yaka, water, television subscription and so much more.
Watch the live draw game shows every weekday at 8.20pm on NBS TV and
Bukedde TV hosted by Zahara Tooto and Patricko Mujuuka. You could be he
next winner because with MoMo Nyabo together, everyone is a winner.