The D25,000 grand prize in the Premium Bonanza raffle by the Reliance Financial Services Limited Company has been won by one Harriet Sylva, an account holder of the bank.

Twenty-four other customers of Reliance, including the secretary of state for Interior, Ousman Sonko (who won a Split Air Conditioner), went home with some handsome prizes ranging from mobile phones, an air ticket to Dakar, bags of cement to air conditioners and other valuable items.

The Reliance Premium Bonanza Account raffle draw, held yesterday on the premises of Reliance on Kairaba Avenue, also enjoyed the solidarity and cooperation of companies such as Africell, QuantumNet, Shell Marketing, Paradise Suites Hotel, Slok Air International and Butcher’s Shop, who were the main sponsors of the raffle draw.

‘The holding of today’s Premium Bonanza raffle draw is in line with our strategic objective of strongly promoting a national savings culture in The Gambia,” said Mr Ismaila Faal, chief operations officer of Reliance.

Mr Faal further noted that the Premium Bonanza Draw “is simply Reliance’s unique way of saying a big thank you to all” their existing and potential customers for their belief and patronage of Reliance’s products and services. This, he added, was done as ‘Ndewenal’ and/or Christmas present on the occasions of the Eid ul Adha and Christmas festivities just concluded.

“Thank you very much. I would like to encourage everybody to come and join Reliance by opening an account with them,” said Harriet Sylva upon receiving her D25,000 Cash Bonanza prize which was handed over to her by Reliance’s chief executive officer, Baboucarr Khan.