Why I Became A Street Sweeper - Taraba State University Graduate

Ms Dennis Delilah NYSC days

Dennis Delilah, a 33-year-old graduate from Taraba State University is from a poor family of six children hardly sorting for life necessity. Recently open up about what she felt and the condition she is passing through, According to Delilah, she picked up a street sweeping job to help assist her parents in training her younger siblings who are still schooling.

Ms. Delilah Dennis said she is proud of her street cleaning job that pays N20,000 monthly than staying at home doing nothing and to see her siblings “suffering,” without her assisting them.

Dennis Delilah who is the firstborn in a family of six is among the hundreds of sweepers, recently recruited by the Taraba state government to keep Jalingo the state capital clean.

The scope of work of the street sweepers, whom Governor Agbu Kefas employed, includes the sweeping of pedestrian bridges, collection of bagged litter and silts, and other materials that deface the streets and highways.

Delilah at sweeping highway job

Ms. Dennis, a 2018 graduate of business administration from Taraba state university Jalingo, without securing a better job after graduation have to grab this smallest opportunity of sweeping highway to build her family. In her testimony "the country is hard and can't expect things easier that's why she stands on her feet to help not minding what will take.

Delilah and family at street sweeper job