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Efforts to interview Mr Muhoho failed as he was reported to be busy. This was despite sending him a questionnaire for the interview.

The MD had promised, through a communications officer, to respond to the questionnaire, only to change his mind at the last minute.

Kenya Airways was forced to temporarily withdraw its services from the airport at night because of frequent power outages last month.

Under siege

And it is not just at JKIA where KAA is under siege; the problems bedevilling the organisation are spread throughout the country’s airports.

Acquisition of public land around Wilson Airport, including a plot surrendered by the University of Nairobi, has remained unchecked.

But to his credit, Mr Muhoho has been overseeing the construction of a new modern wing at JKIA and a new airport in Kisumu.

A duty-free shop at the airport is reported to have been given, without competitive bidding, to a relative of a senior employee of the corporation.

It is such issues that the Sunday Nation had sought responses from Mr Muhoho about but he hadn’t responded by the time we went to press last night.

According to Captain Gad Kamau, the region’s second busiest airport after JKIA, has never passed the test of security carried out by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (Icao).

Between 1993 and 2003, the KAA plan for Wilson had changed so drastically that two residential estates have sprung up on land that is still gazetted as airport land.

A minister in the present government, together with a former chief executive of the authority, acquired land that had been set aside for the headquarters of the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority (KCAA).