The head of Kenya’s airports authority, Alex Gitari, has been fired after a power cut left passengers stranded in darkness for hours at Nairobi’s main airport.
It was gathered that Gitari was sacked by Transport Minister Kipchumba Murkomen, who has apologised for the chaos and added that political interference had given birth to a demoralised and disorganised workforce in the East African country.
In addition to Gitari, another senior civil aviation authority official has been sacked and the manager of Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport has been demoted to a role at Mombasa’s main airport.
However, the majority state-owned power company, as at the time of writing this report, has not explained exactly what caused the power cut.
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