LAPO Bank rewards customers after raffle draw

By Olumide David

Lapo Microfinance Bank has rewarded its   customers with cash prizes in its raffle draw promo.

During the live draw that took place at its head office in Lagos, Lapo said it organised the event to encourage savings culture among Nigerians.

At the promo, 170 winners got consolation prizes, and N500,000 was won by the star winner.

The Head, Corporate Planning Department, Lapo,  Dorcas Thorpe, who spoke at the event said, it wanted the customers to bank with it.

She said, “For the customers, they would rather go to commercial banks to save and come to microfinance banks to collect loans. So we wanted to change the perception that we are not just for credit, but we are also a bank and offer different financial services.

“That is why we want to use the promo to push savings culture among our customers and the public in general.”

She further added that,  savings build resilience for the low income earners to fall back on in terms of emergencies.

Thorpe added, “From the winners, we want people to know there is benefit in savings and we want people to know that Lapo is a brand that has been there for more than 30 years.

“The amount you save with us is yours and the benefit is yours.”

She said Lapo launched the savings promo in November 2022 to run for three months, and the promo encouraged the customers to open a Lapo Savings Express account, and save a minimum of N10,000 monthly for three months to be one of the luck winners.

Over the last couple of months, she said, 43,000 new accounts joined and there had been mobilisation of over N160million.

The star winner from a Yola branch, Sherifat Haruna, who sells foodstuff, plastic rubber and other delivery items, expressed her delight and was happy to partake in the draw, because “the money will help me in so many ways to get established. Trust the bank and keep banking with them financially and in other services it renders,” she said.