Murkomen Forms 11-Member Committee to Probe JKIA Mess
Roads and Transport Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen has formed an 11-member committee to investigate the status of Kenyan airports and make recommendations within 28 days.
In a statement on Wednesday at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA), Murkomen said the team has in the interim been tasked to identify immediate remedial measures to improve facilities and passenger comfort at the JKIA, Wilson, and Moi International Airport in Mombasa.
“The experience over the last few months has raised questions about the status of our airport infrastructure facilities,” he said.
Murkomen said the team has been tasked to assess the state of infrastructure facilities at the airports, and their electro-mechanical facilities and review the works undertaken over the last two years by contractors.
The committee will be chaired by the Director, of Kenya Airports Authority Eng Walter Ogolla.
Members include other KAA directors George Ngugi and Major Rtd Neepe Iltasayon; Martin Wamae (Public Works), Richard Cherop (KCAA) and Eng Christine Nzai (Materials Testing and Research Division).
Others are Engineers Judith Kimeu and James Mbui (KCAA), Lawrence Mochama (Chief Architect – Public Works), Sharon Asiyo (AG’s Office) and Eng Fredrick Kabunge (SDoT).
“The committee may co-opt other members as may be necessary,” Murkomen said.
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“It is expected that the committee will submit an interim report within the next 14 days and the final report within 28 days.”
This means a substantive report is expected to be submitted on December 13, 2023.
Murkomen stated while on an inspection tour of the JKIA following public uproar over a leaking roof at the facility’s Terminals B and C.
The leakage occurred despite the terminals having been rehabilitated in 2021 by the KAA.
The CS on Tuesday laid the blame on the Jubilee administrations under whose watch the repair works of the terminals were carried out.
Murkomen said the contractors hurriedly carried out temporary repairs without meeting the required standards because the Jubilee administration was keen on decommissioning the terminal and constructing a new one.
“They will have to explain the scope of work that was used in the renovations that when there is heavy rainfall, there must be a leakage,” he said while inspecting the expansion of Diani Airport in Kwale County.
Murkomen Forms 11-Member Committee to Probe JKIA Mess