By Tajudeen Adebanjo
Users of water transportation have been rewarded with mouth-watering gifts courtesy of the Lagos State Ferry Service Company (LAGFERRY).
LAGFERRY distributed 100 cowry cards to encourage customers as it starts a promo to woo Lagosians to travel by water.
Its Managing Director of Abdoulbaq Ladi Balogun said Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu directed distribution at Day One of the Sailing’ N Smiling Promo raffle draw in Falomo.
The promo was launched on June 10 to reward LAGFERRY customers, boost patronage and popularise water transportation to decongest traffic on Lagos roads.
Miss Ester Emmanuel won a Samsung flat screen television; a laundryman, Mr Ukah Japhet, won a Samsung washing machine while Miss Omotolani Ogunbo, went home with a rechargeable power bank.
Japhet said he wanted to board a bus from Falomo to Ikorodu but his sister persuaded him to use a ferry.
Balogun said the ‘sailing and smiling’ promo was supported by the Lagos State Waterways Authority (LASWA), Lagos State Consumer Protection Agency (LASCOPA), Samsung, Lagos State Lottery and Gaming Authority, Elivat9ja, Coscharis Group and the Nigerian Breweries Plc.
Balogun urged ferry users to adopt cashless policy by loading their tokens in the cowry card which was integrated into all government modes of transportations.
He said: “We are doing the promo to encourage our people to come on waterway so that we can decongest traffic on the road. It is safe, fast and reliable. We hope that the promo will increase our ridership by 10 per cent. We are going to have a winner of the first grand prize – a car – courtesy of Coscharis Motors, in September.”
He said LAGFERRY and other organisers of the promo would have the promo in 16 jetties.
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