CIG Motors Group has handed over 10 operational vehicles worth more than ₦300 million to the Lagos State Security Trust Fund, adding to a fleet the agency says will directly support how quickly security personnel can respond across the state.
The donation, comprising four Wuling N111s, three Wuling XC250s, and three JMC Vigus pickup trucks, was handed over by CIG Motors Group Chairman and CEO Chief Diana Chen to LSSTF Executive Secretary and CEO Dr Ayodele Ogunsan at the company’s international headquarters in Victoria Island, Lagos. Ogunsan said the vehicles would support rapid response, logistics, field deployment, and emergency operations for security agencies across the state.
Why LSSTF Depends on Donations Like This
The Lagos State Security Trust Fund isn’t funded the way a typical government agency is. It’s a donor-funded interventionist agency whose capacity to support security agencies depends largely on contributions from individuals, businesses, and corporate organisations. Dr Ayodele Ogunsan made that dependence explicit at the handover, framing the donation as an investment in public safety rather than a routine corporate gift.
“The Lagos State Security Trust Fund mobilises resources to strengthen the operational capabilities of security agencies across the state,”
Ogunsan said, adding that the 10 vehicles would enhance mobility, response capacity, logistics and field operations. His gratitude at the ceremony was notably personal, telling Chief Diana Chen directly that her name would be written in gold for taking the step.
The Fund has stayed visibly active on its own account too. Days before receiving the CIG vehicles, LSSTF donated 50 ballistic helmets, 50 bulletproof vests, and 100 raincoats to NNS BEECROFT during a courtesy visit to the naval base’s commander, part of a wider push to improve operational capacity and personnel welfare across security agencies ahead of elections.
This Isn’t CIG Motors’ First Donation to Lagos Security
What makes this donation worth more than a passing mention is the pattern behind it, and it’s the specific thing Dr Ogunsan singled out.
“This is not the Group’s first intervention, and that consistency distinguishes CIG Motors as a dependable private-sector partner,” he said.
The record backs that up. In September 2020, CIG Motors gave five Dongfeng security trucks to LSSTF, split across the Rapid Response Squad, the Lagos State Neighbourhood Safety Corps, and the Lagos State Taskforce. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Chief Diana Chen Foundation donated 50,000 face masks, an ambulance, and ₦20 million toward security and healthcare workers in the state. In August 2022, the company donated a vehicle to the Federal Road Safety Corps’ Lagos Sector Command, and it has separately supplied 150 vehicles to the Dangote Group for use by the Nigeria Police Force.
The company’s civic footprint extends beyond security as well. Earlier this year, CIG Motors backed the Argungu Festival in Kebbi State with 11 vehicles, running a rally through Abuja, Kaduna, Kano, Zamfara, Sokoto and Kebbi in the lead-up, pairing cultural sponsorship with a practical demonstration of its vehicles across real intercity conditions.
The Logic Chief Diana Chen Put Behind It
Chief Diana Chen framed the donation in terms that tie security directly to commerce.
“Security is the first infrastructure of prosperity,”
she said at the handover, meaning that when Lagos is secure, businesses grow, investments thrive and communities prosper. She described CIG Motors as a long-term development partner to the Lagos State Government, a characterisation the company’s record with the state broadly supports.
That partnership runs deeper than donations. CIG Motors is the exclusive Nigerian distributor for GAC Motor, Wuling, and JMC vehicles, and it’s also the parent company behind LAGRIDE, the Lagos State-backed ride-hailing scheme built around job creation and urban mobility. A company whose commercial fortunes are tied that closely to how well Lagos functions as a city has a fairly direct interest in the state’s security holding up, which is arguably what makes the giving sustainable. Companies tend to keep doing what serves them, and in this case what serves CIG Motors and what serves Lagos security operations point in the same direction.
Who Was in the Room
The handover was attended by LSSTF Director of Administration Adegbola Lewis and Executive Assistant Adaobi Nwankwo, alongside a cross-section of CIG Motors leadership including General Manager of Operations Manyo Pan, Director of Public Relations and Marketing Ifeanyi Abraham, and General Manager of Sales Chukwunonso Inoma.