Joe Dinga Pefok
22 December 2008
Christmas and New Year is going to be all rosy and honey for a Douala-based staker of the Pari Mutuel Urbain Camerounais, PMUC who in the Quinté + 4/5 on December 12, won FCFA 70 million.
This was the colossal amount which PMUC had put up for grabs in the race of that day which came up at Vincennes. The amount had so risen, following carry-forward amounts in a number of previous Quinté + 4/5, at which no staker had the winning numbers in order.
Meanwhile, it was gathered that in the Quinte + 4/5 of that December 12, the staker who ended up winning, had made a number of varied entries at a PMUC kiosk at Kayo-Elie for a total of FCFA 25,000.
The sales agent at the kiosk, Marie-Claire Mindjongui, validated the combinations for that staker.The traditional ceremony to hand over the symbolic cheque to the lucky staker was done at the company's headquarters in Douala on December 17.
It is worth noting that in the absence of the General Manager of PMUC who was reportedly out of the country, the Yaounde-based Deputy General Manager of the company, Jean-Françoise Pereira, had to travel to Douala for the grand ceremony.
He was flanked at the ceremony by a number of personalities, among whom were the representative of SGBC, Mrs. Aissatou and that of Gras Savoye, Robert Eyike Nkake.
These companies are the traditional partners of PMUC, that give the much needed professional advice to newly created PMUC millionaires, on how to properly manage their new-found fortunes.
Speaking at occasion, Pereira reiterated that the company always wishes to see stakers win in its different games. For one thing, he said it is always a great moment for PMUC when the company creates another multi-millionaire in the country as the money goes to improve the lives of the lucky winners and their families, and even other persons in the society, either directly or indirectly.
By this, he asserted, PMUC also humbly contributes in the fight against poverty in the country.He invited members of the public to go in, full force, for the end of games that the company is putting up, with the intention of giving opportunities for more stakers to possibly win millions of francs CFA.
He urged stakers who have not yet won big, to continue to try their luck, for who knows, tomorrow might turn out to be their own lucky day. In fact, one of the messages put up for PMUC stakers in the hall where the ceremony took place, read: "Un jour vous aussi allez gagner gros", loosely translated as "One day you too will win big."
Pereira ended by wishing all PMUC stakers across the country, a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, in advance.
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