Boye wins HFC Homesave promo

A CORPORATE Administrative Manager at the African Mining Services (Ghana), Ms Adelaide Larisa Boye, has won for herself a two-bedroom house after emerging as the winner of the third and final draw of the HFC Bank Homesave 2010.


Ms Boye’s house brings to three the number of two-bedroom houses that the bank has given out to its customers as coveted prices for the HFC 2010 Homesave Promo which ran from September 2010 to September 2011.

Other winners of the draw will also be given laptops, HFC branded items and home theatre systems.

Ms Boye told the Daily Graphic on phone that she was “shocked beyond description after realising that I was the winner of a two-bedroom house. I initially thought the caller from HFC Bank got either the name or the number wrong but when I got to realise he was right, I just couldn’t believe my ears, the excitement was just great,” the excited Ms Boye said.

She, however, noted that she would not have been overly excited “if I specifically deposited money in my accounts expecting to win a price in the promo.”

Ms Boye explained that though her outfit was aware of the ongoing promotion at the bank, “I did not deposit money into my accounts in that regard except the normal thing of passing my salary through my HFC Bank account for which I received coupons as being qualified into the final draw.”

She said her over 15 years banking relationship with the bank had paid off following the win and thus called on Ghanians to remain loyal in whatever relationship they find themselves.

Ms Boye who said she currently lived in her own house added that she was yet to decide on what to use the house for.

The Managing Director of HFC Bank, Mr Asare Akuffo, said during the draw in Accra that the bank’s commitment to home ownership since its inception in 1990 “has not wavered, having provided loans to over 6,000 families in the country to purchase houses.”

He said the bank had realised an important link between savings and home ownership and thus reiterated HFC’s commitment to support people in this drive by requiring a minimum of 20 per cent down payment from its prospective mortgagors.

Mr Akuffo said HFC Bank had identified residential financing and the provision of home loans as “a strategic growth path over the next three years.” He, therefore, urged the bank’s numerous customers to expect “to be given priority when the houses to be constructed are delivered from 2012 onwards.”

The HFC MD who doubles as the president of the Ghana Association of Bankers (GAB) added that the bank expected the current consistent decline in inflation and interest rates to continue in the months ahead so as “to give further motivations to Ghanaians to save for their future needs, including home ownership.”