Mr. Ola Oresanya

The Manager in charge of Surulere Zone of LAWMA, Mr. Essien Nsuabia, said that his job was to supervise, coordinate and manage resources at his disposal to ensure the cleanliness of the local government and its appealing aesthetics.

Night operations, according to him, effectively begin at around 10.00pm when the workers are sent out. But before then, the workers are first assembled and properly briefed before being allocated to trucks, whose routes have been pre-determined.

On why the agency carries out waste evacuation at night, Nsuabia says, “The rate and volume of refuse generation is so high that you can’t effectively handle the evacuation during daytime alone.

“At night, however, there is less traffic and most of the markets that generate high volume of wastes would have closed for the day. We attach five or six people and a supervisor to a truck to comb their allotted streets and evacuate all garbage, and we use Dino bins that two people can easily operate.”