The Jomo Kenyatta International Airport is one of the busiest in the continent but over the past few years, it has been struggling to break even with massive losses being reported by the company.
Picture courtesy. Former KDF Chief of General Staff, General Julius Waweru Karangi.
The government has tried to bail it out of the murk but the losses keep coming with a change of guard being done to try and see how the situation might he in the next financial year.
However, according to the Daily Nation Newspaper, what many Kenyans don’t know is that there is a lucrative business owned by Kenyans that is going on at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi.
The reports indicate that there is an in-flight catering kitchen on 1,200 square feet of land within the JKIA that is run by tycoons from Nyeri County.
The kitchen deal is so good that the cononay responsible for it, JV Partners, agreed a deal whereby in the 25-year period that it operates the kitchen, it will remit 411.6 million dollars (48 billion shillings) to the Kenya Airports Authority.
The list of billionaire Kenyans from Nyeri who own the business are Former Mathira Legislator, Eliud Matu Wamae, Ndungu Gathinji, as well as Nyeri Senator Ephraim Mwangi Maina, former KDF Chief of General Staff Julius Karangi and former Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA) chairperson, Peter Kanyago are some of the owners.
A woman who was accused of being the Former President’s second wife is also in the mix, Mary Wambui Mwai.
There are other Nyeri Tycoons in the list like MMUST Chancellor Peter Wanyaga Muthoka as well as Former Ambassador to the United Kingdom Joseph Muchemi.
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