Awotan landfill: For residents, it's from agony to testimony
Share On January 1, 2012, Sunday Tribune featured an article entitled ‘Awotan (Apete): Agony of a dumpsite neighbourhood’. It was a narrative of the pains and agonising experience of people living around the popular Awotan dumpsite in Ibadan, Oyo State. The author of that piece, which was cited in some environment-related publications including the Waste Atlas 2014, was at the time a rookie Tribune reporter by the name of Moses Alao. Nine years after the succinct narration of the agonising lifestyle of Awotan residents was exposed to the world through the instrumentality of the pen of thi...