Zoomlion Delivers Free 1.2km Olusosun Road Upgrade in 26 Days to Clear Lagos Garbage Backlog

A major operational bottleneck that threatened to paralyze waste evacuation across Lagos State has been resolved following the commissioning of the newly rehabilitated 1.2-kilometre access road and tipping platforms at the Olusosun Landfill in Ojota.

Executed completely free of charge by Zoomlion Nigeria Limited as a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) intervention, the project restores smooth access to Lagos’s largest waste disposal facility, which receives nearly half of the solid waste generated daily across the metropolis.

Prior to the intervention, weeks of unrelenting heavy rainfall had severely damaged the main entry corridor—known as Road E—leaving waste collection compactors stuck in thick mud for days at a time. The resulting gridlock meant that Private Sector Participation (PSP) waste operators could not offload trash quickly, causing severe garbage delays in residential neighborhoods across the state.

Recognizing the threat of a public health emergency, the Lagos Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) reached out to Zoomlion, which immediately deployed emergency technical teams, including specialists brought in from Ghana and Kenya. Reconstructed using heavy hard rock and compacted laterite, the team worked through heavy downpours to deliver an all-weather access road and two engineered tipping platforms in just 26 days.

“What should ordinarily take a truck two trips in a day ended up taking several days or even a week when the road was ruined,” explained Habiba Abubakar, Managing Director of Zoomlion Nigeria Limited. “When operators cannot offload quickly, they cannot return to residential areas to pick up more refuse. We treated this as an emergency because every day of delay impacts residents. Now, trucks can move freely, tip waste faster, and get back out to keep Lagos clean.”

Commending the firm for absorbing the full financial cost of the engineering project, LAWMA Managing Director Dr. Muyiwa Gbadegesin described the completion as the dawn of a new era in waste infrastructure management. He noted that the expanded platforms will allow several compactor trucks to dump their contents simultaneously, vastly improving operational turnaround times and keeping city streets clear of accumulated waste.