Passengers stranded as workers paralyse operations at Eldoret International Airport

Operations at the Eldoret International Airport have been paralysed following the workers' strike.

About 100 passengers who were at the airport to board flights, especially to Nairobi have been stranded.

The passengers who had booked in have since been asked to wait at the parking bay as workers refused to serve them.

The more than 300 employees at the facility said they were in solidarity with their colleagues at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport over the controversial Adani deal.

Some of the passengers said they were disappointed because the strike inconvenienced them.

Some took back their belongings and went back to Eldoret town to travel by road to Nairobi.

Senior managers at the airport were on duty but declined to comment on the effects of the strike.

Bishop Charles Mwanda, a stranded traveller who was heading to Mombasa said the strike was an embarrassment to the country.

He asked the government to listen to Kenyans including workers instead of forcing issues on the populace

“Now the country is being messed up because of an issue that would have been sorted out through proper information. Let’s not mess up our country in such a way,” he said.