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Workers at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) went on strike last week. Perturbed by the proposed takeover of the airport’s management by the fiscally challenged national carrier, Kenya Airways (KQ), the workers worried about their future under such skewed arrangement. As such, they resorted to using the only medium government understands to get its attention; Strike.
Characteristically, as events unfolded, the Government chose brawn over brains. To justify its highhandedness in clobbering unarmed airport workers; most of them women, Transport CS James Macharia kept repeating that the airport is a security installation, hence industrial action is forbidden there. In the course of apprising the public of the goings on, a news anchor kept saying; “The standstill continues”.
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