The company announced that the development of an electronic revenue mobilization system for  LEKMA has been made possible through a partnership with Tucksee Ghana Limited a company that offers customized Revenue Solution to both public and private sector clients and helps them improve their revenue collection with end to end solutions, increasing both efficiency and effectiveness.

The electronic property rate payment provides Airtel Money customers in LEKMA the convenience of paying their property rate in the comfort of their homes or offices. This service which is available only on Airtel Money, will enable Airtel Customers make payment via a USSD short code *456*15#. This means the service is available to all Airtel Money subscribers irrespective of the type of phone being used – smartphones or feature phones. 

Speaking on the partnership, Edmund Barwuah, Head of Corporate Sales, Airtel Money said “As the industry leader in innovative mobile financial services, we are happy to partner Tucksee and LEKMA to empower our customers to make payments for property rates electronically. This initiative we believe will save our customers the time and money they would otherwise have spent in traveling to make physical payments at payment points. Customers will as well receive real time notifications via SMS which can be used as validation for rates paid within a specified period of time. Beyond the convenience it provides, this partnership supports our broader agenda of financial inclusion for the majority of Ghanaians. “

On his part, Peter Ramokone, Chief Executive Office of Tucksee said “Throughout the years our company has taken time in understanding the central issues within a revenue collection and administration environment, and we have a simplified solution deployed within various countries in this respect. This initiative with Airtel Ghana is one of the many tailored solutions to provide convenience and a mechanism to tracking funds to District municipalities and metropolitan assemblies. We are happy to partner with Airtel Money in this regard.

Airtel Money is Ghana’s innovative, safe and secure mobile wallet that provides a complete suite of services like money transfer, bill payments and recharge on the move from a mobile device.

About Bharti Airtel                          

Bharti Airtel Limited is a leading global telecommunications company with operations in 18 countries across Asia and Africa. Headquartered in New Delhi, India, the company ranks amongst the top 3 mobile service providers globally in terms of subscribers. In India, the company's product offerings include 2G, 3G and 4G wireless services, mobile commerce, fixed line services, high speed DSL broadband, IPTV, DTH, enterprise services including national & international long distance services to carriers. In the rest of the geographies, it offers 2G, 3G and 4G wireless services and mobile commerce. Bharti Airtel had over 359 million customers across its operations at the end of July 2016. To know more please visit, www.airtel.com

About Airtel in Africa

Airtel is driven by the vision of providing affordable and innovative mobile services to all.  Airtel has 17 operations in Africa: Burkina Faso, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Madagascar, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.  Airtel International is a Bharti Airtel company.  For more information, please visit www.airtel.com, or ‘like’ the Airtel Ghana Facebook page via www.facebook.com/airtelgh or follow us on Twitter via the handle @airtelghana.

For more information, please contact:

Richard Ahiagble

Head of Corporate Communications

Airtel Ghana

Richard.Ahiagble@gh.airtel.com