Movement in and outside of the Eldoret International Airport paralyzed !

Movement in and outside of the Eldoret International Airport has been paralyzed for hours after hundreds of Online taxi operators abandoned their vehicles in protest at the Airports main entrance.

The Online taxi operators are complaining of unfair business practices by the Airport’s Authority officials and a section of Taxi operators within the airport,

“We Have been stuck here for over an hour with our cargo that is supposed to be transported to Nairobi, Not  even the  management has come out to address the  inconvenience “Said Abdi Rizak,  one of the Cargo transporters .

The Online taxi operators claim to have been unfairly targeted and have demanded their issues be addressed owing to the fact that the Eldoret Airport is an International Airport and they ought not to be  discriminated  against.

‘We Pay to the  government and  County government  relevant  taxes online , the Airports yellow  cub operators  neither  pay such taxes to the  government  but  today we are  being  unfairly targeted  by  rogue offices  in cohort with yellow  cub operators at a time when the president is pushing  for the digitization of services” Said Anthony  Mwangi a Taxi Operator

The airport’s yellow cub operators have also been accused of carte blanche harassing other taxi operators unabated.

The Online operators led by Fredrick Otieno have also castigated a move by  unknown people within the  airport to  have clamped a taxi that had been parked outside the airport along the Kapsabet –Eldoret Highway since Tuesday afternoon.

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The facility was officially opened in August 2021 by the MCK Chief Executive Officer David Omwoyo.

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