By Nkiruka Nnorom

The on-going Save 4 Shelter promotional campaign by Fidelity Bank Plc has produced another 18 winners, who emerged in a random draw that took place at the bank’s head office in Lagos. The winners, who were selected from the six geopolitical zones of South East, South South, North, South West, including Lagos and Abuja, carted away N5 million and 12 consolation prizes.

Different cash prizes, including N500,000 (four customers) N1 million and star prize of N2 million were won in the 4th draw of the promo, which commenced four months ago.

Speaking at the event, Executive Director, Shared Services, Fidelity Bank Plc, Mrs Chijioke Ugochukwu, said: “it is special effort on the part of the bank to continue to build strong savings culture among our customers and among generality of Nigerians as a whole. It is also our way of supporting people’s aspiration to rent their own property or own their own houses.

“Financial literacy and financial empowerment programme can sometimes be a bit dry, but embellishing it in this is our way of sending out the messages in a stronger fashion to the key stakeholders, especially our existing and prospective customers.” “Last year, we gave out four bedroom duplex house in a massive compound in Abuja; that has been won. We have given out several millions of naira in rent support to customers and several generating sets and refrigerators and there are still more to be won,” she said.

A representative of National Lottery Regulatory Commission (NLRC), Mr. Afam Ojeh, who was present to witness the draw, vouched for the integrity and transparency of the entire programme, saying that he has been opportuned to witness the previous draws conducted by the bank. He said that he had at different times put call across to previous winners to ascertain if the prizes were actually delivered to them as promised by the bank.

He said: “You can see how transparent the process has been; you the media do the punching and here and then the people are called to inform them about the winning. Why I say that I can vouch for the process is that we take down names and phone numbers of the winners and after now, we also have the mandate to put calls across to the people to ensure that the prizes are not withdrawn later.”

Meanwhile, 200 winners are expected to emerge throughout the duration of the promo and it is open to all Savings Account holders of the bank. Three duplexes located in Lekki Lagos, Port-Harcourt and Abuja will be won at the bi-monthly draws, while a total of N35 million rent support will be won at the monthly draws at average of N5.5 million per month.

The first winner in the rent support category will cart away N2 million; second prize winner in the category will win N1 million, while the third prize winner will go home with N500, 000. One of the duplexes in Abuja was given out last two months.