Residents are happy with the initiative, as it has removed the cleaners from the streets in the morning where they used to compete with cars and pedestrians as they swung their brooms to clean the streets.

Gabriel Mutunga, a cleaner the with City Council assigned to clean the expansive Tom Mboya Street says the city will soon be squeaky clean because he and his colleagues were motivated to maintain high standards.

Mutunga says that efforts should now be directed to repairing the roads and marking them clearly and ensuring that potholes are sealed to avoid the water and mounds of mud from collecting on the streets.

"If potholes are sealed you will see the difference because we will not have the mounds of mud and water building up. You can see areas that have no potholes are clean."

He would like to see more street lights to make work easier in the night. Cleaning is undertaken at different times of the night ending by 7.00 a.m. when the cleaners take a break and return to their homes.

On Kenyatta Avenue, the city’s main street the sweepers descend on the pavements as early as 8 a.m. and leave after midnight leaving the street and the road all the way to the Kimathi Street junction clean.

Armed with brooms and wheel barrows the cleaners move on the city streets with precision combing the flowerbeds for pieces of litter which they load onto their wheel barrows before being dispatched to a central point for collection by trucks.

Raphael Munene, the Superintendent of the Cleansing department at the City Council said that the Council was embarking on two shifts of workers to clean the city.

He said that the city has been divided into six zones, with each zone being allocated 3 trucks to clear garbage. The zones are South, North, West, East, Embakasi and the CBD, which receives the lion’s share of special attention.

Munene said that the CBD was accorded special attention as the seat of the government and as a tourist attraction. He says that the CBD has trucks moving within the CBD to remove garbage around the clock.