Tenants of Orange House apartment in Nairobi’s Ongata Rongai, can’t take it anymore. Where is Nema (National Environment Management Authority) when you desperately need them to crack down on noise polluters? That is the question one furious Joshua is asking, in reference to a couple that has turned noisy love making into breakfast, lunch and super, much to the chagrin of other tenants.The neighbours are up in arms and now demanding forceful eviction of two university students who have been cohabiting in one of the apartments. Apparently, whenever the two love birds get into bed, the last thing on their minds is sleeping. This, however, was the case the first days when they moved in the building, as it provided free for all entertainment of sorts.
“Initially, some of us found it fun and we would laugh about it, dismissing them as young lovers who were still discovering more about each other’s bodies before it became too much for some of us to handle,” said Joshua, the couple’s neighbour.
All had been well until the recent lecturers strike when the couple seemed to have so much time on their hands. “They were always at it, first thing in the morning. Just when you thought they were done, noises would again start around lunch for time and same would also happen in the evening,” said Joshua.
Joshua told Crazy Monday that the odd bit about it is that the young couple doesn’t seem to care. Apparently, each time they arrive from class, that is the first thing they engage in before settling down.
After the lecturers’ 54-day strike came to an end, tenants thought things would return to normal, with the couple now focusing on books, but wapi.