{"id":21524,"date":"2022-07-06T11:49:07","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T11:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/rulindo-fisherman-wins-rwf500000-in-inzozi-jackpot-lotto"},"modified":"2022-07-06T12:10:42","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T12:10:42","slug":"rulindo-fisherman-wins-rwf500000-in-inzozi-jackpot-lotto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/economy\/rulindo-fisherman-wins-rwf500000-in-inzozi-jackpot-lotto","title":{"rendered":"Rulindo fisherman wins Rwf500,000 in Inzozi Jackpot Lotto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Rwanda. <\/strong><\/span>Theophile Benda, a resident of Ntarabana Sector in Rulindo District, is the latest lucky winner of the ongoing Inzozi Jackpot Lotto in which he took home a whopping Rwf 500 000.<\/p>\n<p>The father-of-four, who does fishing for a living, was told he won the cash prize just three days after buying two tickets worth Rwf 500 each.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I received a call from someone telling me that I won Rwf 500 000, I thought it was a scam because I couldn\u2019t imagine winning after several trials. I trusted what the person told me and then I received a message confirming that I won. I took the cash with me today [Tuesday],\u201d he explains.<\/p>\n<p>At first, Benda played but lost on different occasions and he decided to quit playing. It was only a few days ago that he resumed playing and luck came his way after he received a call from Inzozi Lotto that he won Rwf 500 000.<\/p>\n<p>Even then, he had chances of winning the grand prize of Rwf10 million, but he missed out just one digit from a possible win.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have been playing similar games for years but winning was a rare trend. When I realised the Ministry of Sports is involved, I learned that Inzozi Lotto would be trustworthy and that\u2019s why I played with them. My aim was to either win and if not, my money could also contribute to the development of sports in Rwanda,\u201d Benda told The New Times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am now going to save part of the cash for school fees for one of my children, and then I will invest the rest in my daily fishing projects,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Benda insists he will keep playing as he looks to win more cash in future.<\/p>\n<p>Inzozi Lotto, which translates to \u2018Dream Lotto,\u2019 focuses more on supporting sports development with a dream to see Rwandans getting trophies and medals in international games.<\/p>\n<p>Inzozi Lotto was launched in December 2021 in a partnership between Carousel Ltd, a Rwandan registered company and the Ministry of Sports.<\/p>\n<p>It was established in compliance with the Law no 58\/2011 of 21\/12\/2011 in its Article 22, and falls into the goals of national lottery where, by this law, the government has the right to establish a lottery game in order to support socio-economic activities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\">Rwanda<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Rwanda. 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The father-of-four, who does fishing for a living, was told he won the cash prize just three days after buying two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":21523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,15,28],"tags":[760,763,758],"class_list":["post-21524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","category-homepage-english","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-rwanda","tag-rwanda"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Rulindo fisherman wins Rwf500,000 in Inzozi Jackpot Lotto - Rwanda<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Theophile Benda, a resident of Ntarabana Sector in Rulindo District, is the latest lucky winner of the ongoing Inzozi Ja ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/economy\/rulindo-fisherman-wins-rwf500000-in-inzozi-jackpot-lotto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rulindo fisherman wins Rwf500,000 in Inzozi Jackpot Lotto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Theophile Benda, a resident of Ntarabana Sector in Rulindo District, is the latest lucky winner of the ongoing Inzozi Ja ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/economy\/rulindo-fisherman-wins-rwf500000-in-inzozi-jackpot-lotto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Rwanda\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-07-06T11:49:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-07-06T12:10:42+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2022\/07\/postQueueImg_21-62c57baecbecf.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"900\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"500\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/economy\/rulindo-fisherman-wins-rwf500000-in-inzozi-jackpot-lotto#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/economy\/rulindo-fisherman-wins-rwf500000-in-inzozi-jackpot-lotto\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Rulindo fisherman wins Rwf500,000 in Inzozi Jackpot Lotto\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-07-06T11:49:07+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-07-06T12:10:42+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/economy\/rulindo-fisherman-wins-rwf500000-in-inzozi-jackpot-lotto\"},\"wordCount\":396,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/economy\/rulindo-fisherman-wins-rwf500000-in-inzozi-jackpot-lotto#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2022\/07\/postQueueImg_21-62c57baecbecf.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Rwanda\",\"Rwanda\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Economy\",\"homepage-english\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/economy\/rulindo-fisherman-wins-rwf500000-in-inzozi-jackpot-lotto#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/economy\/rulindo-fisherman-wins-rwf500000-in-inzozi-jackpot-lotto\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/economy\/rulindo-fisherman-wins-rwf500000-in-inzozi-jackpot-lotto\",\"name\":\"Rulindo fisherman wins Rwf500,000 in Inzozi Jackpot Lotto - 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