KU, UoN students devise tricks to evade bedbugs giving them sleepless nights

Students at the University of Nairobi and Kenyatta University are having sleepless nights due to bugs.

Kenyatta University’s Nyayo hostels and University of Nairobi’s prefabs are some of the worst affected.

There are claims the bedbugs have become ‘resistant’ to fumigants, forcing students to air their beddings daily to keep the bugs at bay.

Some students have resorted to sleeping during the day, and staying awake during the night.

Others spend the whole night playing computer games. Most female students however have resorted to hot water treatment - pouring boiled water on to the beds, closets, desks, chairs and door hinges.

Recently, Kenyatta University imported a bedbug killing machine worth about Sh2 million from Germany.

The institution also replaced wooden bed frames with wire mesh to reduce breeding. More strategies are put into place by both institutions and students believe that the issue will be resolved soon.