Treepz Partners CMS Taxi To Digitise Transportation For 1.2 Million Customers

Nigerian mobility startup, Treepz Inc. is partnering with CMS Taxi and Motor Nigeria Limited to provide a digital payment system for over 1.2 million commuters in Lagos State.

With the deal, Treepz is providing for CMS T&M management a digitised  ticketing system to provide transparency for the bus operator.

Lagos based CMS T&M has operated in Nigeria’s commercial capital for 53 years as a licensed shuttle bus company.

The company runs high-capacity buses and minivans in the Central Business District of Lagos including Marina, Lagos Island, Victoria Island, Ikoyi, and Lekki areas of Lagos State.

The taxi company boasts of over 1.2 million annual passengers.

Treepz formerly Plenty Waka has been taking over the African transport space with acquisitions of Ghana Stabus and Uganda’s Ugabus.

Treepz recently closed a $2.8m seed round to expand into Eastern Africa.

THE WHISTLER understands that the company is also planning to expand into  Rwanda, Tanzania and Burundi.

Onyeka Akumah, CEO & Co-Founder Treepz believes that the partnership would reshape the country’s transport space.

Aside from Treepz’s newest partner, bus operators like GUO Transport, Libra Motors, EFEX Transport Service, ABC Transport and Anambra Executive are turning to Treepz to build the technology.

Akumah said, “At Treepz, our goal is to improve the public transportation system in Africa using technology and we are constantly looking out for opportunities to partner with major bus operators and state governments to digitise the transportation sector.

“By combining the expertise and technologies of Treepz, with CMS T&M’s 53 years of experience in public transportation and fleet management in Nigeria, we are on the right path to achieving this goal.

“I am particularly excited about the opportunity for this foremost transportation company to use Treepz technology to move away from cash-based payments, paper-ticketing and the general issues that come with this old way of buying bus tickets.

“CMS T&M will now move into the digital era with different ways for their 1.2 million annual customers to purchase their travel tickets while providing transparency and an efficient way to manage their operations with our technology.

“This will greatly improve the experience of daily commuters in Lagos and kick-start the digitalization of transportation systems across Nigeria.”

CMS T&M Managing Director, Andrew Akigbe, said “We are excited about our recent partnership with Treepz and can’t wait to power our CMS bus park using world-class technology with benefits occurring to both partners and commuters.

“Being a business of over 53 years, one of our goals is to drive a transparent operation system and Treepz helps us meet this using technology.”