Guarantee Trust Bank Gambia Limited, a leading Bank in the country has on Friday presented valuables prizes to its lucky winners of this year’s SAVE and WIN PROMOTION in a colourful ceremony held at its offices along the Senegambia highway.
Officials of the Bank presented various prizes including bags of rice, detergents, gallons of cooking oil, flat screen, refrigerator, motor bike, complete luxurious sitting room sofa set, return ticket to Dubai with $2000 pocket money and a three-bedroom house. They presented these valuables to twenty-six winners who has been banking with the bank with a minimum deposit of ten thousand dalasi onwards.
Speaking at the ceremony, Adesina Adebesin, managing director doubling as the Chief Executive Officer of GTBank Gambia Limited described the event as a milestone achievement for the Bank as well as a fulfillment of the promises made by the Bank to its customers.
MD/CEO Adebesin said the SAVE and WIN PROMOTION has now become a tradition to the Bank that is conducted annually to put smiles on the faces of customers who bank with GTBank Gambia Limited , noting that customers banking with the bank can be assure of winning a brand new salon car among other valuable prizes in 2020.
“Allow me to congratulate the 26 winners, the prizes you have won is yours; so please enjoy them……We therefore encourage you to get used to the culture of savings because among many other reasons, saving money can help you become financially secure and serve as cushion in case of an emergency,” GTBank, MD/CEO disclosed.
According to him, GTBank continues to contribute meaningfully to the socio-economic development of the country as amply demonstrated in its cooperate social responsibility initiatives, disclosing that in 2019, staff of GTBank contributed significantly in rendering food and material support to institutions such as TANKA TANKA, Edward Francis Small Teaching Hospital, Ndangan Village among others.
“On the part of the Bank, so many local organizations benefitted from our CSR interventions among them, SOS Gambia Children’s Villages, Bundung Maternal and Child Health Hospital, Farafenni Hospital and The Gambia Secondary Schools Football Association at the tune of D2million all together,” said MD/CEO Adesina Adebesin.
He called on the teeming customers of the Bank to take advantage of the Electronic Banking System, a revolution he said his company is leading in the country, disclosing that e-banking can ease the stress of frequenting the banking halls at the comfort of a click of a button on a phone whether on/offline.
“You can download the GTBank APP, with the APP you can transfer funds to yourself or third parties banking with us or even with other banks. You can check your balances, buy Cashpower, buy mobile phone credit and conduct many other transactions with GTBank,” Adesina Adebesin, MD/CEO GTBank explained the importance and comfort of the GTBank e-banking APP.
Madam Mariama Njie, Deputy General Manager/ Chairperson of the GTBank Gambia SAVE and WIN PROMOTION chronicled the importance of the promotion, disclosing that 26 customers have benefitted from this year’s draw winning for themselves bags of rice, detergents, gallons of cooking oil, flat screen, refrigerator, motor bike, complete luxurious sitting room sofa set, return ticket to Dubai with $2000 pocket money and a three bedroom house.
“The SAVE and WIN PROMO is now a tradition for GTBank Gambia and we wish once again to thank all our esteemed customers for believing in us. This prize giving ceremony is to show commitment and appreciation to our customers for banking with us,” said Madam Njie, Chairperson, SAVE and WIN PROMOTION.
She added: “To qualify as one of the prize winners, customers were deposit funds into their saving accounts with GTBank in order to be part of our ‘Grande Finale Draw’ and win fabulous prizes.”
Also speaking at the ceremony the winner of the giant prize, Matarr Boye, CEO of Boye Mara Enterprise (BME) who won a compound with complete three bedroom said his win came as a big surprise and a great deal of luck, disclosing that the Bank has struggled to get his contact to communicate his win to him.
“I feel very elated today for winning this magnificent compound, it has always been my dream to own a compound of my own and today this is exactly what GTBank actualized for me. I want to thank the Bank for their efforts in contacting me so as to get my prize, it has proved to me how valuable customers are to this Bank,” Boye disclosed as his compound was handed to him.
Bank officials including partners from the Central Bank, TAF Africa Global, Gambia Chamber of Commerce and Industries, family members and staff of Boye Mara Enterprises witnessed the handing over of the compound to Malick Boye winner of this year’s ‘Grande Finale Draw’.
