AS part of its contribution to community development and policing, owners of Metro Taxi have announced the donation of a brand new patrol pickup van to the GRA Ikeja Residents’ Association to enhance security of lives and property.

During the presentation in Lagos, the Managing Director of the company, Niyi Oguntoyinbo, told newsmen that it decided to give back to the community where it is located and doing business for the past two and a half years.

According to him, the car donation was part of his company’s way of building a lasting relationship with its host and part of its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) to the community to enhanced security of lives and property.  He pledged the company’s desire to do more in the future to improve the relationship.

He further stated that though this is the first of its kind for the company since it started taxi operations, adding that plans are afoot to do more CSR.    “We expect that we’ll be able to partner with other residential associations for sustainability on long term objectives, and plan that it would get bigger as we go on,” Oguntoyinbo said.

The Vice-President of the association, Debo Collins, commended Metro Taxi for supporting the community with a patrol van that would assist in the reduction of crime in the area and advised other corporate organisations to emulate Metro Taxi.

A resident of the area and Managing Director, CMC Connect, Yomi Badejo-Okusanya, lauded Metro Taxi for the laudable initiative and prayed that the Metro Taxi income increases so that they could do more for other communities in need of help.

Metro Taxi started operations in 2010 with the objective of revolutionising the public taxi transportation system in Lagos.

The company operates a metered taxi system that ensures passengers pay for the accurate fare and they also offer accident insurance cover to both passengers and the pilots.