The Toilet Cleaners Poem by Tony Adah

The toilet itself
Was not a modern type
There was much hype
About it in the days
Of the colonialists
And those who clean them
Were called night-soil-men

In time they stayed on strike
For this name the public derided
The protest was great
Until in Lagos authorities asked
Them for a name they wanted
And all that they needed
To be called was sanitory technologists
Funny, initally the authorities prevaricated
For a simple name change
And caused dingleberries
To bear and stank in whole city.