Airtel Launches “Chemsha Bongo” Promotion to Retain Customers this Christmas

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airtel-new-logo-horiAirtel has announced a 90-day promotion  dubbed “Chemsha Bongo” to give its customers an opportunity to win Kshs.1 million by just answering a general knowledge quiz game service that gives Airtel customers the opportunity to answer multiple choice questions via SMS.

Customers participating in the promotion will earn 100 points for every right answer. Players with the highest number of points at the end of the promotion period will be awarded a grand prize of Ksh1, 000,000 cash.

The promotion also offers customers with the highest daily and weekly points, a chance to win Ksh20, 000 and Ksh40, 000 respectively.

To enter the promotion, customers will follow the below process on their Airtel phones;

  • Dial a short code *395# and selecting the “Subscribe” option (FREE of charge).
  • Receive a set of questions by SMS (FREE of charge)
  • Reply to the SMS (Every SMS sent is charged at Ksh 5).
  • Dial the short code *395# and select “My Score” to check accumulated points (FREE of charge)

All winners will be notified through the official number 0734111777. The promotion is set to run until 14th January, 2015.

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Based in Nairobi, Kenya, Sam Wakoba is a pan-African technology journalist, author, entrepreneur, technology business mentor, judge, educationalist, and a sought-after speaker and panelist across Africa’s innovation ecosystem. He is the convenor of the popular monthly #TechNight evening event and the #StartupEast Awards and Conference, platforms that bring together startup founders, developers, entrepreneurs, investors, content creators, and tech professionals from across the continent. For more than 16 years, Sam has reported on and analysed Africa’s technology landscape, covering some of the continent’s most impactful, and at times controversial policies, programs, investors, co-founders, startups, and corporations. His work is known for its independence, depth, and fairness, with a singular goal of helping build and strengthen Africa’s nascent technology ecosystem. Beyond journalism, Sam is a business analyst and consultant, working with brands, universities, corporates, SMEs, and startups across East Africa, as well as international companies entering the East African market or scaling across Africa. In his free time, he volunteers as a consulting editor and fintech analyst at Business Tech Kenya, a business, technology, and data firm that publishes reports, reviews, and insights on business and technology trends in Kenya. Follow him on X: @SamWakoba