Service operations at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport's Terminal 1C in Nairobi have ground to a halt due to heavy rains experienced in the country.
On Friday, April 26, leaking roofs left passengers stranded as flooding in the luggage areas forced a suspension of operations.
Terminal 1C, which serves international flights, bore the brunt of the impact.
In a video shared by media personality Larry Madowo, airport employees can be seen attempting to contain the water by placing containers strategically around the terminal.
The employees who attend to passengers have left their stations, with seats strewn all over the place.
JKIA has been painted in a bad light in the recent past, as Kenyans drag Roads and Transport Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen into the mess that is now causing shame to the country.
The CNN correspondent Larry Madowo and CS Murkomen were recently engaged in an online dispute over the state of the airport.
Madowo exposed the flooding on the walk paths inside JKIA, questioning why the government had yet to build canopies to shelter those accessing various parts of the airport.
In response, Murkomen condemned the journalist for exposing the bad state, highlighting the need for him to focus on spreading positivity.
" I saw Larry taking videos at the airport. I was laughing because Larry was with us in the country for the last 50 years when that airport was like that. Suddenly because he lives in ‘majuu’ his eyes are open and realizes that there is no shade when you exit JKIA," Murkomen stated.
The government, in the Medium Term Plan launched by President William Ruto on Wednesday, March 22, revealed it will construct a new terminal at the international facility. The new terminal will handle a capacity of 20 million passengers annually.
“The terminal will house both local and international passengers but subject to the completion of a feasibility study that is currently ongoing,” he stated then.
