In a bid to appreciate passengers’ patronage, the Rivers State Transport Company (RTC) has presented gift items to its customers who emerged successful at this year’s raffle draw organised by the company in Port Harcourt.
The RTC facilitator of the programme, Wariso Biadima, said the gesture was a way of saying thank you to passengers who patronised the company’s transport service, and also abided by the terms and conditions of the company.
The gift items which include plasma television, cell phones, among others, were won through raffle draws.
According to him, “This is one of the means we use in appreciating our customers, the passengers. There is what we call transit and win programme, once you board our vehicle, you are qualified for the draw”.
The RTC Public Relations Officer, Christiana Dokubo Bob-manuel, said that those who qualified for the raffle draw were picked from the passengers’ manifest which is a travelling record of passengers names, identity and phone number on board a particular vehicle from January to December, each year.
She said, “once you buy the ticket from the beginning of January to December, so by the January next year, you have a raffle draw. We produce the ticket, so anybody from the crowd either commuters that are around or guest that are around – from this January, we have started another one that will end by December, and by 2021 January, there will be another raffle draw. This one now is for 2019”.
One of the beneficiaries, who spoke to The Tide on condition of anonymity, expressed his gratitude to RTC for recognising the importance of commuters as a major stakeholders in their commercial activities. He said that he would continue to patronise the RTC, saying its services remains one of the best among others in the state.
He also called on the government to provide security along the major highways in the country.