At Kenya’s Main Airport, Flights are Grounded as Laborers Demonstrate Against the Adani Agreement

Due to a labor strike against a proposed agreement between the government and a foreign investor on Wednesday, passengers utilizing Kenya’s main international airport are stuck.

The planes have not taken off after the demonstration.

According to the government, the build-and-operate agreement with the Adani Group of India calls for the construction of an extra runway and terminal along with renovations to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in exchange for the group managing the airport for 30 years.

When the strike was announced, the Kenya Airport Workers Union claimed that those who would stay would have “inferior terms and conditions of service” and that job losses would result from the agreement.

Due to the ongoing strike at the airport that serves Nairobi, Kenya Airways informed on Wednesday that there might be possible cancellations as well as delays in scheduled flights.

Airport employees had planned to go on strike last week, but those plans were shelved as negotiations with the government continued.

There were indications last week that the Indian firm executives were getting ready for the sale when airport officials saw unidentified individuals roaming around and taking pictures and notes.

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