Prime Cabinet Secretary (PCS) Musalia Mudavadi had a very difficult time explaining why President William Ruto is working with private investors at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA).
Musalia Mudavadi, the Prime Cabinet Secretary (PCS), had a hard time explaining why President William Ruto is collaborating with private investors at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA).
This comes in response to the persistent allegations that Ruto was in the process of selling the JKIA to a few investors, which has stoked the ire of Kenyans, particularly Generation Zers. Mudavadi, on the other hand, made it clear to Kenyans that the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) was not up for sale.
In response to a question in the National Assembly, Mudavadi said that the government wanted to give the airport operations to private investors. Mudavadi said that the investors would build a terminal for the airport through a Public Private Partnership (PPP). JKIA cannot be purchased.
This is a public resource. Because it is a strategic asset, you can only sell it after a thorough public process that Parliament approves, he explained. “It is not true that anyone is giving the impression that JKIA has been sold.”
Mudavadi urged Kenyans to recognize that the international airport needed to be modernized and that investors were needed to do so. He explained, “We need a new terminal. There was a green terminal, but it never took off because the contractual agreement had problems.”
The PCS noted that litigation prevented the construction of a green terminal from moving forward. He commented that going ahead, the Kenya Air terminals Authority (KAA) ought to disclose all extended commitment with private financial backers to keep away from a rehash of something very similar.
