South African Designer Wins Second Apartment in M-PESA Promotion

Eric Lindenberg, 49, a South African national resident in Kenya emerged the second winner of the 7.8-million-shilling apartment in the ongoing Maisha Ni M-PESA Tu Promotion.

The global interior design consultant who lives with his wife and two children says he moved to Kenya just over six years ago to join his wife’s family.

“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. 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,” said the jubilant Eric Lindenberg.

Eric noted that it was a pleasant surprise when he received the call from Safaricom on Tuesday last week notifying him that he had won an apartment.

He becomes the second winner after the first apartment went to James Njagi, an artisan at Gikomba Market. The apartments are located in Nairobi’s Kahawa West estate, off Thika Road and the Eastern Bypass.

“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.

In addition to the two apartment winners, more than 190,000 M-PESA customers and 1,900 agents have won instant cash prizes and float including of 2,000 shillings, 5,000 shillings, and 10,000 shillings.

The promotion began just over four weeks ago and seeks to reward M-PESA’s more than 28.6 million customers and 150,000 agents with 300 million shillings in prizes. Seven lucky customers and eight lucky agents stand to win an apartment and 1 million shillings in float respectively.