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| Prime Minister, Hon. Kassim Majaliwa Majaliwa (right) listens to Director of M-Pesa, Epimack Mbeteni, when he visited the company’s booth during launch of the Road Safety Week at Furahisha Grounds in Mwanza. Center is the Mwanza Regional Commissioner, Adam Malima. |
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| Prime Minister, Hon. Kassim Majaliwa Majaliwa (right) comments on Vodacom’s initiative to install tracking devices in their staff vehicles to control speed from the Director of M-Pesa, Epimack Mbeteni, when he visited the company’s booth during launch of the Road Safety Week at Furahisha Grounds in Mwanza. Second left is Mwanza Regional Commissioner, Adam Malima and Inspector General of Police (IGP), Camillius Wambura. |
Speaking during the official opening of the commemoration of Road Safety Week held at Furahisha Grounds in Mwanza, the guest of honor, the Prime Minister of the United Republic of Tanzania, Hon. Kassim Majaliwa Majaliwa said that public sectors have a bigger role to play by partnering with private sectors which are committed to innovative digital solutions to reduce the rate of road accidents.
“Collaborate with private sectors to gain more experience and learn from them, it will assist to improve our systems and prevent loss of the lives of our people from road accidents,” says Hon. Majaliwa
That has been said when the Prime Minister visited Vodacom’s booth to learn about the tracking device system installed in their staff’s vehicles hence reducing the occurrence of accidents at the workplace for over ten years.
Hon. Majaliwa added that to prevent fatal accidents that cost the lives of people, our institutions have a significant role to find a better solution to protect infrastructure and casualties, “for the past three years (2020 - 2022) road accidents have claimed 1582 lives and led to 4372 casualties, this is totally unacceptable and needs to be solved”.
Speaking during the launch of the opening ceremony, Regional Commissioner of Mwanza, Hon. Adam Malima noted that it is the responsibility of every vehicle owner to insurance his or her vehicle, not only for the sake of avoiding traffic policies on road but for their own protection, pedestrians, passengers, and others.
“There is a need to educate the importance of insurance to motorists. The laws that require each vehicle owner to ensure their vehicles were not meant to avoid being caught on the road but rather to protect them while on roads and the lives of the third parties. And that’s why insurance packages vary from one another,” explained Hon. Malima.
“For that, I commend Vodacom’s initiatives, apart from being among the regular participants and sponsors of this activity, they come up with different digital innovative solutions that impact positively the Tanzanian communities. Through their VODA BIMA service, everyone with a mobile phone can easily access insurance services and be able to pay in installments without the hustle to visit insurance agencies physically,” concluded the Regional Commissioner.
The Road Safety Week was nationally commemorated at Furahisha grounds in Mwanza from March 14-17 with the theme: ‘Tanzania Bila Ajali Inawezekana, Timiza Wajibu Wako’.
On his part Director of M-Pesa, Epimack Mbeteni explained that VODA BIMA accessed through M-Pesa has come to challenge the status and ease accessibility of insurance services in Tanzania, the service offer payment in installments for a year and sends push notifications when the service is about to expire.
“Through VODA BIMA, a customer can easily join depending on a type of vehicle and start paying in installments for a year. To save time and serve a customer from getting caught on the road when the insurance expires, the service will send push notification messages when the payment is due. Currently, we cover cars, Bajaj, and motorcycles. The goal is to encourage all motorists to have easy accessibility, safe, and reliable insurance solutions at any time and place they are at affordable costs,” concluded Mbeteni.
VODA BIMA was introduced by Vodacom Tanzania in July 2021 as an innovative digital insurance solution that can be easily accessed via M-Pesa. It aims to enable customers and Tanzanians across the country to ease and affordable insurance service through mobile phones and pay in installments throughout the year.
Hon. Majaliwa added that to prevent fatal accidents that cost the lives of people, our institutions have a significant role to find a better solution to protect infrastructure and casualties, “for the past three years (2020 - 2022) road accidents have claimed 1582 lives and led to 4372 casualties, this is totally unacceptable and needs to be solved”.
Speaking during the launch of the opening ceremony, Regional Commissioner of Mwanza, Hon. Adam Malima noted that it is the responsibility of every vehicle owner to insurance his or her vehicle, not only for the sake of avoiding traffic policies on road but for their own protection, pedestrians, passengers, and others.
“There is a need to educate the importance of insurance to motorists. The laws that require each vehicle owner to ensure their vehicles were not meant to avoid being caught on the road but rather to protect them while on roads and the lives of the third parties. And that’s why insurance packages vary from one another,” explained Hon. Malima.
“For that, I commend Vodacom’s initiatives, apart from being among the regular participants and sponsors of this activity, they come up with different digital innovative solutions that impact positively the Tanzanian communities. Through their VODA BIMA service, everyone with a mobile phone can easily access insurance services and be able to pay in installments without the hustle to visit insurance agencies physically,” concluded the Regional Commissioner.
The Road Safety Week was nationally commemorated at Furahisha grounds in Mwanza from March 14-17 with the theme: ‘Tanzania Bila Ajali Inawezekana, Timiza Wajibu Wako’.
On his part Director of M-Pesa, Epimack Mbeteni explained that VODA BIMA accessed through M-Pesa has come to challenge the status and ease accessibility of insurance services in Tanzania, the service offer payment in installments for a year and sends push notifications when the service is about to expire.
“Through VODA BIMA, a customer can easily join depending on a type of vehicle and start paying in installments for a year. To save time and serve a customer from getting caught on the road when the insurance expires, the service will send push notification messages when the payment is due. Currently, we cover cars, Bajaj, and motorcycles. The goal is to encourage all motorists to have easy accessibility, safe, and reliable insurance solutions at any time and place they are at affordable costs,” concluded Mbeteni.
VODA BIMA was introduced by Vodacom Tanzania in July 2021 as an innovative digital insurance solution that can be easily accessed via M-Pesa. It aims to enable customers and Tanzanians across the country to ease and affordable insurance service through mobile phones and pay in installments throughout the year.
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