Distinguished ladies and gentlemen,

It’s a great privilege to host all of you once again at the 2021 edition of the MTN Invitational Golf Tournament. We appreciate you for honoring our invitation as we exercise to stay fit and healthy and also relieve ourselves from the week’s activities.

We are even more grateful for your coming out today because last year around this time, COVID-19 caused the world’s greatest disruption and prevented our engagements. Today, we all appreciate the essence of togetherness. Technology played a significant role in our adapting to the new normal but I am not sure technology could give us the same experience we are enjoying today.

Ladies and gentlemen, permit me to share some corporate updates with you. MTN Ghana is on course to transition into a full digital operator in the next few years. While that is happening, we are set to celebrate our 25th anniversary as a business. To demonstrate our commitment to the growth of this country, we will continue to make significant investments into our network to ensure optimum performance and a distinct customer experience. We will also support social development programs.We call on all of you to support our initiatives when details of the anniversary are shared when we launch the celebrations. am

We are also embarking on an important exercise towards making Mobile financial services more secure for customers. From 2nd April, we will all be expected to present any National ID when undertaking MoMo cash- out transaction.

Our support towards the fight against COVID-19 continues unabated. Earlier in the year, MTN Group Partnered African Union’s (AU’s) COVID-19 vaccination program with $25 million to procure Vaccines for Africa. I am happy to say that last Sunday, Ghana received 165,000 AstraZeneca Vaccines for health workers.

As we all know, the end of the first quarter of this year has given us an indication of a steady pick up of economic activities. For us at MTN, we maintain a positive attitude, just as golfers do when playing on the golf course.  We remain focused on our theme for the year which seeks to provide an enhanced digital experience for the customer.

Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to conclude by congratulating all he winners of today’s tournament for their demonstration of resilience and tenacity.  Better luck to those who did not win. We wish every everyone the best in their endeavours. We look forward to a massive participation in the next edition of MTN Invitational because  “We are good together”. Stay safe.