Services paralyzed as JKIA roof leaks, again - VIDEO

The ongoing heavy rains that have wreaked havoc across the country have also flooded the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA).

Travellers on Friday found themselves in a dilemma with some essential services getting stuck due to the heavy rain.

Some roofs at the airport are also leaking, causing operations of the Terminal 1C that serves the Qatar, Lufthansa, Ethiopia, Turkish and Rwanda international airlines to halt.

Travellers were left uncertain whether their journeys will continue or not.

This is not the first time such a situation has been witnessed at the airport.

In November last year, another viral video of a leaking roof at JKIA went viral, but Transport Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen blamed it on what he termed poor workmanship by the contractor and engineers who did renovations at Terminal 1C and 1E in the previous government of President Uhuru Kenyatta.

He claimed the contractors hurriedly carried out the temporary renovations without meeting the required standards since the government was in the process of decommissioning the terminal and constructing a new one.

CS Murkomen, speaking then, assured Kenyans that the renovations would be redone according to the required standards.

Operations at JKIA’s Terminal 1C interrupted amid roof leakage following the ongoing heavy rains pic.twitter.com/iOUGy26vhn— Citizen TV Kenya (@citizentvkenya) April 26, 2024