Airport workers under the Kenya Aviation Workers Union (KAWU) have claimed that operatives from the Indian firm Adani Airport Holdings are roaming around the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.
According to the KAWU secretary general Moses Ndiema, the operatives who they claim are from Adani have been roaming about and taking photographers of the facilities, even though the government claims that no deal has been signed yet.
“”They are currently roaming around taking pictures everywhere, this is a threat to us and to our security,” said Ndiema. He spoke on Monday when workers under KAWU held a procession to the Kenya Airports Authority (KAA) in protest against the proposed takeover of the JKIA by the Adani Group.
The workers who postponed a strike against Adani that was set to start on Saturday September 1 in order to go through the proposal documents lamented that the government had not availed the proposal in full.
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“We were only given five documents by the government out of the eleven that we were supposed to be given and out of the five, some had not even been signed,” said Ndiema.
On Monday, it also emerged that Adani had set up a company in Kenya further fueling fears that the government had decided to hand over the operations of the JKIA to them.