Shopkeeper wins Sh8.6m Elitebet jackpot in Kisumu
Kisumu's Mary Atieno Buyu receives a dummy cheque for Sh8.5 million from Mary Maina, the Chief Finance Officer at Oxygen 8 Group, after winning the amount in the Elitebet Jackpot. PHOTO | COURTESY |
What you need to know:
- A Kisumu shop attendant, Pauline Atieno Buyu, has earned herself and her husband, Pascal Otieno, an early Valentine’s Day gift by striking Elitebet’s Sh8.6 million jackpot win.
- With Sh50, Atieno, who works at Choppies Supermarket in the lakeside city, correctly predicted her bet on 12 selected football games.
- An elated Atieno declared that she would first keep her money in a fixed deposit account as she mulls over a wise investment venture.
A Kisumu shop attendant, Pauline Atieno Buyu, has earned herself and her husband, Pascal Otieno, an early Valentine’s Day gift by striking Elitebet’s Sh8.6 million jackpot win.
With Sh50, Atieno, who works at Choppies Supermarket in the lakeside city, correctly predicted her bet on 12 selected football games.
An elated Atieno declared that she would first keep her money in a fixed deposit account as she mulls over a wise investment venture.
“I will keep working as I decide on which business to take up as nowadays you have to be careful not to burn your fingers in the wrong investments,” she said.
In addition to the cash prize, Elitebet will provide Atieno a six-month financial and investment training.
This is according to Mary Maina, the chief finance officer at Oxygen 8 Group who intimated that Elitebet Kenya, one of the Oxygen 8 associated brands, seeks to provide advice on to winners on prudent management of their prize money.
“We seek to ensure that winners have a bright future and not encounter ‘a riches to rags’ situation. “Moreover, we have invested in a comprehensive support system for our players especially given the fact that, ours is a mass product geared towards rural areas with the aim of changing livelihoods for the better,” said Maina.
The firm allows people to bet with no minimum bet amount on normal bets, and the jackpot costs only Sh50 to play.
A visibly excited Atieno says she opened an account with Elitebet Kenya in November, 2016. She placed bets for the last two months, responsibly, ranging from Sh10 to Sh50.
The biggest winning she had prior to this was when she won Sh500 from a bet of Sh50.
LIFE-CHANGING SMS
On February 4, at 12:01pm, with only Sh60 in her account, Atieno placed her bet of Sh50 online on the Elitebet Kenya Jackpot.
Her balance was Sh10 and last Tuesday morning, she received the life-changing SMS that read: “OMG! You won the jackpot!”
“I could not believe the message and I had to keep asking the person who made a follow-up call if they were sure I had won all that money or it was just a hoax,” she explained.
Atieno was accompanied by her husband, sister and her little daughter at the Elitebet Kenya offices where she received her cheque with prize money on Thursday.
