A video has emerged indicating cleaners at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) were forced to spend night in the cold after their contracts were allegedly terminated.
In the daily updates on the state of coronavirus in the country, President Uhuru Kenyatta announced a 21-day extension of the cessation of movement in and out of Kilifi, Kwale, Mombasa and the Nairobi Metropolitan area.
He also announced the extension of the dusk-to-dawn curfew by 21 days. So far, the national tally of coronavirus confirmed cases in Kenya are 376.
But this has not stopped JKIA administration from firing over 70 cleaners and throwing them out at night.
In viral video on Twitter, the employees claim they had reported to work at 3pm for their night shift and had already started working.
Part 2 of the #JKIA story!
Their replacements are ready! No communication on the termination of the contract! They were just kicked out like dogs! pic.twitter.com/WVGsiJncqj
— Insider Kenya (@The_InsiderKe) April 29, 2020
They were asked to come together and submit their names before they were asked to surrender their security passes.
“We had reported as usual but were asked to come together and write our names, they then took our security passes and kicked us out of the airport. We are now stranded here and we don’t know what to do, it is already late and some of us come from very far,” said one of them.
The employees said they had been working with Golden Cleaning Company that was hired to offer cleaning services at JKIA.
“I am a mother of six and I don’t have a husband, I fully rely on this job for my survival, please government you need to assist us, how I am even going home at this hour?,” said Millicent Omondi.
Kenyans on social media are calling out JKIA over the disrespectful treatment of their Kenyan employees given it was at night and they had nowhere to go.
Worrying!
Why sack them at night!?@PatikanaMusyi @Kilinditi2019— Raphael M. Nyūngū (@Rapharl_musn) April 29, 2020
On 30 June 2019, someone fell from KQ Flight 100 that was flying over London. The stowaway created a small crater as his body hit the ground. May he rest in peace. Sky News reported that he was a cleaner at #JKIA working for Colnet & earning 300 a day. KAA & Colnet denied it.
— Nahashon Kimemia (@NahashonKimemia) April 29, 2020
Of urgency, it will be in order for Atwoli to call for a Press Conference today, defend #JKIA employees, dismiss GoK as "washenzi" and throw his iPhone with fury! Otherwise this guy has no moral authority to tell Kenyans about 2022 or BBI. We're watching him keenly. pic.twitter.com/TW0QiAJg2f
— Abuga Makori EGH, MBE (@abuga_makori) April 29, 2020
Why Are People Dragging Atwoli Into The Mess At #JKIA Yet That Is Not His Area Of Expertise??Atwoli Is A POLITICIAN!! He Has Other IMPORTANT Things To Do Like Booty Licking Raila & Ensuring #williamruto Does Not Clinch The Top Seat In 2022.
Leave Atwoli Alone!!! pic.twitter.com/8LkXEBAJrI— MURIUKI🥶 (@MuriukiEugene) April 29, 2020
The JKIA administration and Golden Cleaners Company have, by the time this writer was publishing this article, not issued their response on the matter.
Last month, a Kenyan man exposed yet another shocking coronavirus negligence at Kenya’s best-in terms of everything- airport, JKIA.
The expose came at a time when Michael Joseph led management had been forced to redeploy the staff that recorded the Chinese plane landing at the airport amid the global scare of the spread of novel Coronavirus.
