This morning, activities at several Kenyan airports including the JKIA were brought to a standstill as striking aviation workers decided to down their tools.
https://twitter.com/TheStarBreaking/status/1103154286631010304
At the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, no plane could take off or land as the boarding passes issuance area, security screening area and waiting area all remained empty with hundreds of passengers stranded outside.
Following the strike, the government, like it always does resulted to the harassment and intimidation card; sending General Service Unit officers to teargas the airport workers as stranded passengers stood and watched in disbelief.
The videos soon made it online and the international community watched as the nation yet again brought shame to itself thanks to mediocre decisions by mediocre persons in those positions of power.
https://twitter.com/RoyalRiqs/status/1103188481088606209
Shortly after this "exercise" of clobbering and teargassing that left six workers seriously injured, Transport CS James Macharia announced that "normalcy" had resumed at the airport.
https://twitter.com/JamesMacharia_/status/1103190799100071937
Angry Kenyans, however, questioned the government's sole way of always using violence to deal with such a crisis which only ends up showing how uncivilized we are as a nation.
https://twitter.com/MigunaMiguna/status/1103163106186936320
https://twitter.com/MigunaMiguna/status/1103167616095535104
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